A179411 The number of rows with alive cells in the n-th generation of cyclic sequence of patterns given in A179409, played in Conway's Game of Life on the 8x8 toroidal grid.

4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 4

Offset: 0

Author

Antti Karttunen, Jul 27 2010

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

The mean value of terms in the whole period of 24 is 6.41667.

Examples

			See illustrations in A179409. In the first four patterns there are alive cells in 4, 2, 4 and 4 rows, thus a(0)=4, a(1)=2 and a(2)=a(3)=4.
		

Links

• A. Karttunen, J-program for computing the terms of this sequence

Crossrefs

A179409-A179410.