OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
From Gary W. Adamson, May 25 2009: (Start)
equals the toothpick sequence A153006: (1, 3, 6, 9, 13, 20, 28, ...). (End)
If A151550 is written as a triangle then the rows converge to this sequence. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 16 2009
LINKS
N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..16384
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
EXAMPLE
From Omar E. Pol, Jun 19 2009: (Start)
May be written as a triangle:
1;
3;
4,5;
5,10,12,9;
5,10,13,15,20,32,32,17;
5,10,13,15,20,32,33,23,20,33,41,50,72,96,80,33;
5,10,13,15,20,32,33,23,20,33,41,50,72,96,81,39,20,33,41,50,72,97,89,66,73,...
(End)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, May 20 2009
STATUS
approved