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A141475 Number of Turing machines with n states following the standard formalism of the busy beaver problem where the head of a Turing machine either moves to the right or to the left, but none once halted. 1
36, 10000, 7529536, 11019960576, 26559922791424, 95428956661682176, 478296900000000000000, 3189059870763703892770816, 27296360116495644500385071104, 291733167875766667063796853374976 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

COMMENTS

The sequence is infinite and grows exponentially.

REFERENCES

J. P. Delahaye and H. Zenil, "On the Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity for short sequences,"Randomness and Complexity: From Leibniz to Chaitin, edited by C.S. Calude, World Scientific, 2007.

J. P. Delahaye and H. Zenil, "Towards a stable definition of Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity," to appear in Fundamenta Informaticae, 2009.

T. Rado, On non-computable functions, Bell System Tech. J., 41 (1962), 877-884.

LINKS

Hector Zenil (hector.zenil-chavez(AT)malix.univ-paris1.fr), Aug 09 2008, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..30

Author?, The experimental AIT project

Author?, The smallest universal Turing machine implementation contest

FORMULA

(4n+2)^(2n)

EXAMPLE

a(3) = 7529536 because the number of n-state 2-symbol Turing machines is 7529536 according to the formula (4n+2)^(2n).

MATHEMATICA

Plus[Times[4, n], 2]^Times[2, n]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A203052 A054407 A058466 * A201003 A134374 A159423

Adjacent sequences:  A141472 A141473 A141474 * A141476 A141477 A141478

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Hector Zenil (hector.zenil-chavez(AT)malix.univ-paris1.fr), Aug 09 2008

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