A266975 Binary representation of the n-th iteration of the "Rule 78" elementary cellular automaton starting with a single ON (black) cell.
1, 110, 11100, 1101000, 111010000, 11010100000, 1110101000000, 110101010000000, 11101010100000000, 1101010101000000000, 111010101010000000000, 11010101010100000000000, 1110101010101000000000000, 110101010101010000000000000, 11101010101010100000000000000
Offset: 0
Links
- Robert Price, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Elementary Cellular Automaton
- Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 55.
- Index entries for sequences related to cellular automata
- Index to Elementary Cellular Automata
Programs
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Mathematica
rule=78; rows=20; ca=CellularAutomaton[rule,{{1},0},rows-1,{All,All}]; (* Start with single black cell *) catri=Table[Take[ca[[k]],{rows-k+1,rows+k-1}],{k,1,rows}]; (* Truncated list of each row *) Table[FromDigits[catri[[k]]],{k,1,rows}] (* Binary Representation of Rows *)
Formula
Conjectures from Colin Barker, Jan 08 2016 and Apr 18 2019: (Start)
a(n) = 2^(n-2)*5^(n-1)*(9*(-10)^n+2189*10^n-20)/99 for n>0.
a(n) = 10*a(n-1)+10000*a(n-2)-100000*a(n-3) for n>3.
G.f.: (1+100*x-10000*x^3) / ((1-10*x)*(1-100*x)*(1+100*x)).
(End)