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A118171 Decimal representation of n-th iteration of the Rule 158 elementary cellular automaton starting with a single black cell. 5

%I #42 May 08 2022 00:55:23

%S 1,7,29,115,477,1843,7645,29491,122333,471859,1957341,7549747,

%T 31317469,120795955,501079517,1932735283,8017272285,30923764531,

%U 128276356573,494780232499,2052421705181,7916483719987,32838747282909,126663739519795,525419956526557

%N Decimal representation of n-th iteration of the Rule 158 elementary cellular automaton starting with a single black cell.

%H Colin Barker, <a href="/A118171/b118171.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a>

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rule158.html">Rule 158</a>

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>

%H <a href="/index/Ce#cell">Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata</a>

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_04">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (0,17,0,-16).

%F a(n) = (1/30)*(-16+(-4)^n-10*(-1)^n+55*4^n).

%F From _Colin Barker_, Oct 08 2015: (Start)

%F a(n) = 17*a(n-2) - 16*a(n-4) for n>3.

%F G.f.: -(4*x^3-12*x^2-7*x-1) / ((x-1)*(x+1)*(4*x-1)*(4*x+1)).

%F (End)

%F a(n) = floor(28*4^n/15) for even n>=0; a(n) = floor(27*4^n/15) for odd n. - _Karl V. Keller, Jr._, Oct 09 2020

%e 1;

%e 1, 1, 1;

%e 1, 1, 1, 0, 1;

%e 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1;

%e 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1;

%e ...

%e From _Michael De Vlieger_, Oct 08 2015: (Start)

%e First 8 rows, representing ON cells as "1", OFF cells within the bounds

%e of ON cells as "0", interpreted as a binary number at left, the decimal

%e equivalent appearing at right:

%e 1 = 1

%e 111 = 7

%e 1 1101 = 29

%e 111 0011 = 115

%e 1 1101 1101 = 477

%e 111 0011 0011 = 1843

%e 1 1101 1101 1101 = 7645

%e 111 0011 0011 0011 = 29491

%e 11101 1101 1101 1101 = 122333

%e (End)

%t Table[(-16 + (-4)^n - 10 (-1)^n + 55*4^n)/30, {n, 0, 24}] (* or *)

%t clip[lst_] := Block[{p = Flatten@ Position[lst, 1]}, Take[lst, {Min@ p, Max@ p}]]; FromDigits[#, 2] & /@ Map[clip, CellularAutomaton[158, {{1}, 0}, 24]] (* _Michael De Vlieger_, Oct 08 2015 *)

%o (PARI) Vec(-(4*x^3-12*x^2-7*x-1)/((x-1)*(x+1)*(4*x-1)*(4*x+1)) + O(x^30)) \\ _Colin Barker_, Oct 08 2015

%o (PARI) vector(100, n, n--; (1/30)*(-16+(-4)^n-10*(-1)^n+55*4^n)) \\ _Altug Alkan_, Oct 08 2015

%o (Python) print([27*4**n//15 if n%2 else 28*4**n//15 for n in range(50)]) # _Karl V. Keller, Jr._, May 07 2022

%Y Cf. A071037 (cells), A265379 (binary).

%K nonn,base,easy

%O 0,2

%A _Eric W. Weisstein_, Apr 13 2006

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