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A309251
Period of Langton's ant on an n X n torus.
0
2, 8, 66, 96, 11710, 4592, 64165598, 11502464, 919057222998
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
This is the period of a full cycle of Langton's ant--i.e., how long it takes for the ant to end up in the same location where it started, facing in the same direction, with the torus having the same coloration as at the beginning.
If the same location requirement is dropped, the values for n=3,5,7,9 decrease significantly.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A009602 A248028 A011836 * A100623 A231280 A086594
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
Andrew Gritsevskiy, Jul 18 2019
STATUS
approved