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A161426
Y-toothpick sequence starting at the outside corner of an infinite triangle-shaped polygon as the sieve of A160120 after 2^k rounds.
2
0, 1, 4, 7, 14, 19, 26, 35, 52, 63, 70
OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
The sequence gives the number of Y-toothpicks after n rounds. A161427 (the first differences) gives the number added at the n-th round.
See the entries A160120, A139250 and A153006 for more 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.]
David Applegate, The movie version
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
more,nonn
AUTHOR
Omar E. Pol and David Applegate, Jun 20 2009
STATUS
approved