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A151922
Number of first-quadrant cells (including the two boundaries) that are "ON" after n-th stage of the Holladay-Ulam cellular automaton.
5
1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 19, 29, 31, 35, 39, 49, 53, 63, 73, 101, 103, 107, 111, 121, 125, 135, 145, 173, 177, 187, 197, 225, 235, 263, 291, 373, 375, 379, 383, 393, 397, 407, 417, 445, 449, 459, 469, 497, 507, 535, 563, 645
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
See A079314, the first differences and A147562, the main entry for this CA, for further information.
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) = A079316(2n).
MATHEMATICA
A151922list[nmax_]:=Accumulate[Join[{1}, 3^(DigitCount[Range[nmax], 2, 1]-1)+1]]; A151922list[100] (* Paolo Xausa, Jun 29 2023 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 05 2009
EXTENSIONS
Extended (a(30)-a(47)) and edited by Omar E. Pol, Nov 21 2010
STATUS
approved