A172309 Number of L-toothpicks added to the L-toothpick structure of A172308 (First quadrant) at the n-th stage.

0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 6, 6, 8, 6, 12, 10, 6, 4, 6, 10, 12, 10, 14, 14, 16, 16, 18, 14, 16, 12, 20, 22, 8, 8, 16, 18, 16, 10, 16, 20, 24, 26, 36, 24, 32, 30, 40, 28, 24

Offset: 0

Author

Omar E. Pol, Feb 06 2010

Keywords

• more
• nonn

Links

• David Applegate, Omar E. Pol and N. J. A. Sloane, The Toothpick Sequence and Other Sequences from Cellular Automata, Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 206 (2010), 157-191. [There is a typo in Theorem 6: (13) should read u(n) = 4.3^(wt(n-1)-1) for n >= 2.]
• N. J. A. Sloane, Catalog of Toothpick and Cellular Automata Sequences in the OEIS

Crossrefs

Cf. First differences of A172308.

Cf. A139250, A139251, A152978, A172304, A172305, A172306, A172307, A172308, A172310, A172311, A172312, A172313.

Formula

a(0) = 0, a(n) = A172305(n+1)/4, for n>=1.

Extensions

More terms from Colin Barker, Apr 19 2015