OFFSET
0,2
LINKS
Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Elementary Cellular Automaton
Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 55.
FORMULA
Conjectures from Colin Barker, Jan 04 2016 and Apr 18 2019: (Start)
a(n) = (-9*(-1)^n+1098999991099*2^(n-9)*5^(n-10)-11)/198 for n>9.
G.f.: (1+x-x^3-x^8+x^9+x^10-x^12) / ((1-x)*(1+x)*(1-10*x)).
(End)
MATHEMATICA
rule=61; rows=20; ca=CellularAutomaton[rule, {{1}, 0}, rows-1, {All, All}]; (* Start with single black cell *) catri=Table[Take[ca[[k]], {rows-k+1, rows+k-1}], {k, 1, rows}]; (* Truncated list of each row *) mc=Table[catri[[k]][[k]], {k, 1, rows}]; (* Keep only middle cell from each row *) Table[FromDigits[Take[mc, k]], {k, 1, rows}] (* Binary Representation of Middle Column *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, Jan 03 2016
STATUS
approved