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A267161 Total number of OFF (white) cells after n iterations of the "Rule 107" elementary cellular automaton starting with a single ON (black) cell. 1

%I #15 Apr 19 2019 07:11:29

%S 0,2,4,6,9,12,18,20,31,35,48,50,69,73,94,96,123,127,156,158,193,197,

%T 234,236,279,283,328,330,381,385,438,440,499,503,564,566,633,637,706,

%U 708,783,787,864,866,949,953,1038,1040,1131,1135,1228,1230,1329,1333

%N Total number of OFF (white) cells after n iterations of the "Rule 107" 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="/A267161/b267161.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a>

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html">Elementary Cellular Automaton</a>

%H S. Wolfram, <a href="http://wolframscience.com/">A New Kind of Science</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>

%F Conjectures from _Colin Barker_, Jan 12 2016 and Apr 19 2019: (Start)

%F a(n) = a(n-1)+a(n-2)-a(n-3)+a(n-4)-a(n-5)-a(n-6)+a(n-7) for n>12.

%F G.f.: x*(2+2*x+x^3-x^4+x^5-x^6+4*x^7+x^8-x^9-x^10+x^11) / ((1-x)^3*(1+x)^2*(1+x^2)).

%F (End)

%t rule=107; rows=20; ca=CellularAutomaton[rule,{{1},0},rows-1,{All,All}]; (* Start with single black cell *) catri=Table[Take[ca[[k]],{rows-k+1,rows+k-1}],{k,1,rows}]; (* Truncated list of each row *) nbc=Table[Total[catri[[k]]],{k,1,rows}]; (* Number of Black cells in stage n *) nwc=Table[Length[catri[[k]]]-nbc[[k]],{k,1,rows}]; (* Number of White cells in stage n *) Table[Total[Take[nwc,k]],{k,1,rows}] (* Number of White cells through stage n *)

%Y Cf. A267152.

%K nonn,easy

%O 0,2

%A _Robert Price_, Jan 11 2016

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