A179414 The number of rows with alive cells in the n-th generation of cyclic sequence of patterns given in A179412, played in Conway's Game of Life on the 8x8 toroidal grid.

4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 7, 8, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 6, 8, 8, 8, 7, 4, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 7, 8, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 8, 8, 6, 7, 7, 5, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 7, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 7, 8, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 6, 8, 8, 8, 7, 4, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7

Offset

0,1

Comments

Period 66. The sequence begins (from offset 0) with its lexicographically earliest rotation.

The mean value of terms in the whole period of 66 is 6.72727.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..98.

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

Example

See illustrations in A179412. In all the first four patterns there are alive cells in four rows, thus a(0)=a(1)=a(2)=a(3)=4.

Crossrefs

See also A179412-A179413.

Sequence in context: A134994 A138195 A140744 * A361248 A139324 A111655

Adjacent sequences: A179411 A179412 A179413 * A179415 A179416 A179417

Keyword

nonn

Author

Antti Karttunen, Jul 27 2010

Status

approved