[seqfan] Re: A139250 Question

[Neil Sloane]

M Hutchins said

"
There it says "By carefully keeping track of the toothpicks at each stage,
we figured out a way to generate all the numbers in the ‘toothpick
sequence’ using previously calculated numbers. This means, we found a
recursive pattern in the sequence of numbers."."

Me:  yes, that is correct, why do you doubt it?  The article you should
read is this:

David Applegate, Omar E. Pol and N. J. A. Sloane, The Toothpick Sequence
and Other Sequences from Cellular Automata
<http://neilsloane.com/doc/tooth.pdf>, which is also available at
arXiv:1004.3036v2 <http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3036>

(There are two links to different copies of the same article)



Best regards
Neil

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:16 PM, P. Michael Hutchins <pmh232 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A139250 has a link, http://boisemathcircles.org/bmc-sessions/toothpicks.
>
> There it says "By carefully keeping track of the toothpicks at each stage,
> we figured out a way to generate all the numbers in the ‘toothpick
> sequence’ using previously calculated numbers. This means, we found a
> recursive pattern in the sequence of numbers.".
>
> Is that in fact the case?
>
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