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A278423
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Decimal representation of the x-axis, from the left edge to the origin, of the n-th stage of growth of the two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 41", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
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4
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1, 0, 1, 12, 5, 48, 7, 244, 17, 964, 17, 4036, 81, 16132, 117, 65360, 263, 261236, 337, 1047556, 1393, 4190276, 1809, 16774468, 4117, 67094336, 5407, 268419156, 22337, 1073677596, 28753, 4294924036, 66929, 17179635796, 87809, 68719215732, 356689
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OFFSET
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0,4
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COMMENTS
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Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
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REFERENCES
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S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
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LINKS
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Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..126
Robert Price, Diagrams of first 20 stages
N. J. A. Sloane, On the Number of ON Cells in Cellular Automata, arXiv:1503.01168 [math.CO], 2015
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Elementary Cellular Automaton
S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata
Index to 2D 5-Neighbor Cellular Automata
Index to Elementary Cellular Automata
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MATHEMATICA
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CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=41; stages=128;
rule=IntegerDigits[code, 2, 10];
g=2*stages+1; (* Maximum size of grid *)
a=PadLeft[{{1}}, {g, g}, 0, Floor[{g, g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)
ca=a;
ca=Table[ca=CAStep[rule, ca], {n, 1, stages+1}];
PrependTo[ca, a];
(* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)
k=(Length[ca[[1]]]+1)/2;
ca=Table[Table[Part[ca[[n]][[j]], Range[k+1-n, k-1+n]], {j, k+1-n, k-1+n}], {n, 1, k}];
Table[FromDigits[Part[ca[[i]][[i]], Range[1, i]], 2], {i, 1, stages-1}]
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CROSSREFS
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Cf. A278421, A278422, A278424.
Sequence in context: A122561 A110185 A299516 * A278661 A280614 A281041
Adjacent sequences: A278420 A278421 A278422 * A278424 A278425 A278426
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KEYWORD
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nonn,easy
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AUTHOR
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Robert Price, Nov 21 2016
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STATUS
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approved
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