A179411 The number of rows with alive cells in the n-th generation of cyclic sequence of patterns given in A179409, played in Conway's Game of Life on the 8x8 toroidal grid.

4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 4

Offset

0,1

Comments

The mean value of terms in the whole period of 24 is 6.41667.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..71.

A. Karttunen, J-program for computing the terms of this sequence

Example

See illustrations in A179409. In the first four patterns there are alive cells in 4, 2, 4 and 4 rows, thus a(0)=4, a(1)=2 and a(2)=a(3)=4.

Crossrefs

A179409-A179410.

Sequence in context: A095382 A135282 A347409 * A103859 A253808 A346171

Adjacent sequences: A179408 A179409 A179410 * A179412 A179413 A179414

Keyword

nonn

Author

Antti Karttunen, Jul 27 2010

Status

approved