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A160166
Toothpick number A153006(n) minus generalized pentagonal number A001318(n).
2
0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 5, 6, 7, 2, 4, 2, 6, 8, 23, 28, 29, 16, 14, 4, 4, -2, 9, 7, 9, -1, 9, 10, 31, 54, 103, 120, 121, 92, 82, 56, 48, 26, 29, 11, 5, -21, -19, -34, -21, -14, 27, 29, 27, -7, -9, -32, -23, -24
OFFSET
0,5
LINKS
David Applegate, Omar E. Pol and N. J. A. Sloane, The Toothpick Sequence and Other Sequences from Cellular Automata, Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 206 (2010), 157-191. [There is a typo in Theorem 6: (13) should read u(n) = 4.3^(wt(n-1)-1) for n >= 2.]
FORMULA
a(n) = A153006(n) - A001318(n).
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
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AUTHOR
Omar E. Pol, May 23 2009
EXTENSIONS
a(11) corrected and more terms from Nathaniel Johnston, Mar 22 2011
STATUS
approved