A061342 Period of the stationary component of the pattern which a row of n cells becomes in Conway's Game of Life.

1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 15, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2

Offset: 1

Author

Alex Fink, Jun 06 2001

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

For n = 56, the pattern produces gliders and thus does not oscillate in the truest sense of the word. For n = 57, no gliders are produced and a(57) = 2. There exists an N such that for all n >= N, the row of n alive cells produces gliders and thus does not oscillate. - Nathaniel Johnston, Jun 08 2009

Examples

			a(10) = 15 because a line of 10 cells becomes the pentadecathlon.
a(56) = 2 because a line of 56 cells becomes 4 gliders (which we ignore) and a remaining pattern of period 2. - _Eric M. Schmidt_, May 24 2014
		

Links

• Eric M. Schmidt, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
• LifeWiki, One-cell-thick pattern

Crossrefs

Cf. A152389.

Extensions

More general definition and sequence extended by Eric M. Schmidt, May 24 2014