OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
On the infinite square grid we draw a Fibonacci spiral starting with 2,2,4,6,10,16,... (Note that each edge has length = A000045(k)*2, for k>0). We start at stage 0 with no toothpicks. At stage 1 we place a toothpick in a orthogonal direction, in the center of the Fibonacci spiral. At stage 2 we place 2 toothpicks. And so on...
LINKS
Nathaniel Johnston, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..255
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.]
N. J. A. Sloane, Catalog of Toothpick and Cellular Automata Sequences in the OEIS
Nathaniel Johnston, C script for computing terms
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Omar E. Pol, May 26 2009
EXTENSIONS
Terms after a(32) from Nathaniel Johnston, Mar 30 2011
STATUS
approved