A292089 Numbers n such that Watanabe's 3-shift tag system {00/1011} started at the word (100)^n eventually dies (i.e., reaches the empty string).

5, 9, 11, 16, 20, 22, 23, 25, 37, 38, 43, 47, 61, 64, 66, 68, 71, 82, 87, 95, 100, 115, 119, 120, 123, 126, 137, 141, 142, 143, 144, 147, 149, 153, 156, 158, 164, 165, 171, 178, 179, 183, 188, 195, 196, 201, 202, 203, 205, 206, 212, 214, 216, 218, 223, 232

Offset: 1

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 10 2017

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Watanabe's tag system {00/1011} maps a word w over {0,1} to w', where if w begins with 0, w' is obtained by appending 00 to w and deleting the first three letters, or if w begins with 1, w' is obtained by appending 1011 to w and deleting the first three letters.

These are the numbers such that A292091(n)=0.

Oct 11, 2017: Lars Blomberg has found that 872 is a member of this sequence. The word (100)^872 reaches the empty string after 72392976118788 iterations. The attached graph shows the lengths of the successive words in the trajectory. - N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 13 2017

Examples

			The following is the analog of columns 3 through 7 of Asveld's Table 1.
1 [171, 6, 56, 59, 138]
2 [166, 6, 56, 59, 133]
3 [11, 6, 16, 17, 10]
4 [154, 6, 56, 59, 121]
5 [105, 0, 0, 31, 24]
6 [14, 518, 28, 85, 215]
7 [57, 6, 38, 41, 36]
8 [68, 518, 42, 85, 333]
9 [173, 0, 0, 49, 38]
10 [1098, 6, 34, 159, 407]
11 [8265, 0, 0, 328, 4429]
12 [720, 6, 34, 93, 343]
13 [1715, 6, 34, 93, 1338]
14 [130, 28, 82, 83, 85]
15 [1979, 6, 20, 215, 720]
16 [2024, 0, 0, 193, 1023]
17 [833, 6, 70, 121, 420]
18 [162, 34, 100, 101, 105]
19 [591, 6, 20, 109, 118]
20 [6124, 0, 0, 357, 2259]
21 [59673, 6, 20, 781, 33530]
22 [748, 0, 0, 150, 328]
23 [11631, 0, 0, 273, 6250]
24 [3200, 6, 56, 261, 1515]
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Links

• Lars Blomberg, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1440
• Peter R. J. Asveld, On a Post's System of Tag. Bulletin of the EATCS 36 (1988), 96-102.
• Lars Blomberg, Lengths of words in the trajectory of (100)^872
• N. J. A. Sloane, Maple code for A291792, A284119, A291793, A284121, A291794, A291795, A291796, A292089, A292090, A292091, A292092, A292093, A292094.
• Shigeru Watanabe, Periodicity of Post's normal process of tag, in Jerome Fox, ed., Proceedings of Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Automata, New York, April 1962, Polytechnic Press, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1963, pp. 83-99. [Annotated scanned copy]

Crossrefs

Cf. A284116, A291067, A291780, A291781.

Asveld's Table 1 gives data about the behavior of Post's 3-shift tag system {00/1101} applied to the word (100)^n. The first column gives n, the nonzero values in column 2 give A291792, and columns 3 through 7 give A284119, A291793 (or A284121), A291794, A291795, A291796. For the corresponding data for Watanabe's 3-shift tag system {00/1011} applied to (100)^n see A292089, A292090, A292091, A292092, A292093, A292094.

Extensions

a(8)-(18) from Lars Blomberg, Sep 14 2017

a(19) and beyond from Lars Blomberg, Apr 20 2018