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A102358
Finite sequence of iterations at which Langton's Ant passes through the origin.
7
0, 4, 8, 16, 52, 60, 96, 140, 184, 276, 368, 376, 384, 392, 428, 436, 472, 656, 660, 3412, 4144, 4152, 6168, 6764, 8048, 8052, 8056, 8060, 8068
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Ant Farm algorithm available from bbarbour(AT)unitec.ac.nz.
Numbers n such that A274369(n) = A274370(n) = 0. - Felix Fröhlich, Jul 26 2016
REFERENCES
Christopher G. Langton et al., (1990) Artificial Life II. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA., USA
LINKS
P. Sarkar, A Brief History of Cellular Automata, ACM Computing Surveys. Vol. 32 No. 1 March (2000).
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn,fini,full
AUTHOR
Robert H Barbour, Feb 21 2005, corrected Feb 27 2005
STATUS
approved