OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
The sequence gives the number of toothpicks in the sieve after n-th stage.
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.]
N. J. A. Sloane, Catalog of Toothpick and Cellular Automata Sequences in the OEIS
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Omar E. Pol, May 29 2009
EXTENSIONS
Extended beyond a(13) by R. J. Mathar, Jun 01 2009
STATUS
approved