a(8) = 11 because we have [8a], [8b], [1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a], [1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1b], [1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1b, 1b], [1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1b, 1b, 1b], [1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b], [1a, 1a, 1a, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b], [1a, 1a, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b], [1a, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b] and [1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b, 1b].