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Indexing starts from zero, because a(0) = 1 is a special case, indicating an empty path, which thus ends at the same vertex as where it started from.

A258204(n) gives the count of terms with binary width 2n + 1.

Differs from A258002 for the first time at n=6622, where a(6622) = 69131119 which is missing from A258002 because that number codes for one of the 26 different orientations of the same 26-edge six-hex polyhex where the two hexes at the ends of the pattern touch each other. This pattern is isomorphic to benzenoid [6]Helicene (up to chirality, see the illustrations at Wikipedia-page).

The terms in this sequence are those whose binary representation can be rewritten to 127 (in binary "1111111", which encodes the boundary of a single hexagon) with an appropriate sequence of invocations of recurrences A254109 and A258009. However, there are some intricacies as how this should be done to get correct results. (Please see Kovič paper.)

Note that the papers in literature employ different, "Boundary Edges Code for Benzenoid Systems" (BEC for short) but to which these binary boundary codes can be directly related via their run-lengths.

These are binary boundary codes for fusenes with bilateral symmetry, i.e., those terms k in A258013 for which A256999(A059893(k)) = k. A258018(n) gives the count of terms with binary width 2n + 1.

Differs from its subsequence A258005 for the first time at n=113, as a(113) = 131821024 is the first term not present in A258005.

A fusene is a benzenoid (a polyhex) which has a single component of boundary edges (that is, no holes). Including also geometrically nonplanar configurations allows helicene-like self-touching or self-overlapping structures. Thus this sequence differs from A258206 for the first time at n=13 as here a(13) = 313 [while A258206(13) = 312] because the smallest such nonplanar structure is 26-edge [6]Helicene, which is encoded by one-capped binary code 131821024 (= A258013(875) = A258015(113)). Please see the illustrations at the Wikipedia page. Note that although in their three-dimensional conformation molecules like [6]Helicene and other [n]Helicenes with n >= 6 have two different chiralities (resulting from the handedness of the helicity itself), in this count of abstract combinatorial objects they are considered achiral because of their bilateral symmetry.

If one counts these structures by the number of hexes (instead of perimeter length), one obtains sequence 1, 1, 3, 7, 22, 82, ... (probably A108070).

This sequence counts fusenes up to rotations, but with no turning over allowed. Fusenes are like polyhexes with additional criteria that no holes are allowed, while on the other hand, helicene-like self-touching or self-overlapping configurations are included in the count here. Cf. the links and further comments at A258019.

For n >= 1, a(n) gives the total number of terms k in A258013 with binary width = 2n + 1, or equally, with A000523(k) = 2n.

Differs from A258004 for the first time at n=875, which here contains a(875) = 64712160, encoding the smallest polyhex (26 edges, six hexes) where two hexes (at the different ends of the pattern) meet to touch each other.