A172308 L-toothpick sequence in the first quadrant.

0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 17, 21, 27, 33, 41, 47, 59, 69, 75, 79, 85, 95, 107, 117, 131, 145, 161, 177, 195, 209, 225, 237, 257, 279, 287, 295, 311, 329, 345, 355, 371, 391, 415, 441, 477, 501, 533, 563, 603, 631, 655

Offset

0,3

Comments

The same as A172310 and A172304, but starting from half L-toothpick in the first quadrant.

Note that if n is odd then we add the small L-toothpicks to the structure, otherwise we add the large L-toothpicks to the structure.

We start at stage 0 with half L-toothpick: A segment from (0,0) to (1,1).

At stage 1 we place a small L-toothpick at the exposed toothpick end.

At stage 2 we place two large L-toothpicks.

At stage 3 we place two small L-toothpicks.

At stage 4 we place two large L-toothpicks.

And so on...

The sequence gives the number of L-toothpicks after n stages. A172309 (the first differences) gives the number of L-toothpicks added at the n-th stage.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..47.

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. A139250, A153000, A160120, A160170, A160172, A161206, A161328, A172304, A172305, A172306, A172307, A172309, A172310, A172311, A172312, A172313.

Sequence in context: A076245 A370647 A318953 * A351695 A190812 A238738

Adjacent sequences: A172305 A172306 A172307 * A172309 A172310 A172311

Keyword

nonn

Author

Omar E. Pol, Feb 06 2010

Extensions

a(17)-a(47) from Robert Price, Jun 17 2019

Status

approved