A Closed Form for the Pulsar Sequence
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2025-10-22 v1
Abstract
In this paper, we study the Pulsar Sequence, an integer sequence derived from Latin-square-based Pulsar puzzles introduced by the Cracking the Cryptic YouTube channel. A Pulsar puzzle consists of two interlocked spirals of circled and uncircled squares, generating the Dual and Pulsar sequences, respectively. We investigate the properties of the Pulsar puzzle and focus our work on constructing the Pulsar Sequence, allowing us to solve a Pulsar puzzle of any size. A general formula to calculate any term of the Pulsar Sequence is proposed at the end of the paper.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.17893,
title = {A Closed Form for the Pulsar Sequence},
author = {Ryan Liu and Vadim Ponomarenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17893},
year = {2025}
}