1,3

Apart from the second diagonal (which gives the toothpick sequence A139250), the rest of the diagonals cannot be represented with toothpick structures. - Omar E. Pol, Dec 14 2016

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

N. J. A. Sloane, Catalog of Toothpick and Cellular Automata Sequences in the OEIS

See A162958 for rules governing the generation of N-th Toothpick sequences. By way of example, (N+2), A139250. The generator is A160552, which uses the multiplier "2". Then A160552 convolved with (1, 2, 2, 2,...) = A139250 the Toothpick sequence for N=2. Similarly, we create an array for Toothpick sequences N=1, 2, 3,...etc = A163267, A139250, A162958,...; then take the antidiagonals, creating triangle A163311.

Triangle begins:

1;

1, 2;

1, 3, 4;

1, 4, 7, 5;

1, 5, 10, 11, 7;

1, 6, 13, 19, 15, 10;

1, 7, 16, 29, 25, 23, 13;

1, 8, 19, 41, 37, 40, 35, 14;

1, 9, 22, 55 51, 61, 67, 43, 16;

1, 10, 25, 71, 67, 86, 109, 94, 47, 19;

1, 11, 28, 89, 85, 115, 161, 173, 100, 55, 22;

1, 12, 31, 109, 105, 148, 223, 286, 181, 115, 67, 25;

1, 13, 34, 131, 127, 185, 295, 439, 296, 205, 142, 79, 30;

1, 14, 37, 155, 151, 226, 377, 638, 451, 331, 253, 175, 95, 36;

...

Row sums = A163312: (1, 3, 8, 17, 34, 64,...).

Right border = A163267, toothpick sequence for N=1.

Next diagonal going to the left = A139250, toothpick sequence for N=2.

Then 1, 4, 10, 19,... = A162958, toothpick sequence for N=3.

Cf. A160552, A162958, A163311, A163312.

Sequence in context: A174829 A132110 A039912 * A210555 A008949 A076832

Adjacent sequences: A163308 A163309 A163310 * A163312 A163313 A163314

nonn,tabl

Gary W. Adamson, Jul 24 2009

approved