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Binary representation of the middle column of the "Rule 3" elementary cellular automaton starting with a single ON (black) cell.
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%I #21 Oct 10 2021 06:15:56

%S 1,10,100,1001,10010,100101,1001010,10010101,100101010,1001010101,

%T 10010101010,100101010101,1001010101010,10010101010101,

%U 100101010101010,1001010101010101,10010101010101010,100101010101010101,1001010101010101010,10010101010101010101

%N Binary representation of the middle column of the "Rule 3" elementary cellular automaton starting with a single ON (black) cell.

%D S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 55.

%H Robert Price, <a href="/A266071/b266071.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..999</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="https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_Elementary_Cellular_Automata">Index to Elementary Cellular Automata</a>

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_03">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (10,1,-10).

%F G.f.: (1 - x^2 + x^3)/(1 - 10*x - x^2 + 10*x^3). - _Michael De Vlieger_, Dec 21 2015

%F a(n) = floor(991*10^n/990). - _Karl V. Keller, Jr._, Oct 09 2021

%e From _Michael De Vlieger_, Dec 21 2015: (Start)

%e First 8 rows at left with the center column values in parentheses, and at right the binary value of center column cells up to that row:

%e (1) -> 1

%e 1 (0) 0 -> 10

%e 0 0 (0) 1 0 -> 100

%e 1 1 1 (1) 0 0 1 -> 1001

%e 0 0 0 0 (0) 0 1 0 0 -> 10010

%e 1 1 1 1 1 (1) 1 0 0 1 1 -> 100101

%e 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0) 0 0 1 0 0 0 -> 1001010

%e 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (1) 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 -> 10010101

%e (End)

%t Table[SeriesCoefficient[(1 - x^2 + x^3)/(1 - 10 x - x^2 + 10 x^3), {x, 0, n}], {n, 0, 19}] (* _Michael De Vlieger_, Dec 21 2015 *)

%o (Python) print([991*10**n//990 for n in range(50)]) # _Karl V. Keller, Jr._, Oct 09 2021

%Y Cf. A266070, A081253 (decimal).

%K nonn,easy

%O 0,2

%A _Robert Price_, Dec 20 2015