How many digits does that number have? Just so I can wrap my head around it a bit.testitemqlstudop wrote:2->2->3->6 * 4
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
Can you put that in knuth arrows?
For reference, the way Wikipedia puts it, p→q→r = p↑ʳq and p→q = p^q
So I imagine (2->(2->3->6))*4 is (2^(2^^^^^^3))*4. = 4*2^(2^^^^^(2^^^^^2)) = 4*2^(2^^^^^4)
Though in the way it was provided, I would evaluate to 4*4, so 2 digits is your answer.
EDIT: the number of digits in a number x (base n) is (log base n of x) + 1, rounded down.
So if that answers your question, Dani, log(4*2^(2^^^^^4))+1, rounded down.
EDIT2: based on the more accurate lifespan estimate, >digits(2^^9)
For reference, the way Wikipedia puts it, p→q→r = p↑ʳq and p→q = p^q
So I imagine (2->(2->3->6))*4 is (2^(2^^^^^^3))*4. = 4*2^(2^^^^^(2^^^^^2)) = 4*2^(2^^^^^4)
If I’m understanding Conway chained arrow notation correctly, ~log(4*2^(2^^^^^(2^^^^^2)), (no, I’m not calculating pLifespan. That’s a tilde) so I bet that that is still a large number (i.e. How many digits does that number have)danny wrote:How many digits does that number have?
Though in the way it was provided, I would evaluate to 4*4, so 2 digits is your answer.
EDIT: the number of digits in a number x (base n) is (log base n of x) + 1, rounded down.
So if that answers your question, Dani, log(4*2^(2^^^^^4))+1, rounded down.
EDIT2: based on the more accurate lifespan estimate, >digits(2^^9)
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
Whoops, guess I used chained-arrow notation wrong.
Anyways, it takes
Anyways, it takes
to get the glider to the spacefiller, which is only 1/4 of the total evolution time. Then, the tear in the agar propogates through the spacefiller, and after 4x as much time, it destroys the three corners. Now it would probably take much more time to have the triangle completely stabilize, and if it spawns a natural replicator,on the order of 2^^^^^^^(2^^^^^^(2^^^^^(2^^^^(2^^^(2^^(2^n))))))
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
I really don’t know that well about Conway chained arrow notation, so you’re probably right.testitemqlstudop wrote:Whoops, guess I used chained-arrow notation wrong.
Anyways, it takesto get the glider to the spacefiller, which is only 1/4 of the total evolution time. Then, the tear in the agar propogates through the spacefiller, and after 4x as much time, it destroys the three corners. Now it would probably take much more time to have the triangle completely stabilize, and if it spawns a natural replicator,on the order of 2^^^^^^^(2^^^^^^(2^^^^^(2^^^^(2^^^(2^^(2^n))))))
It would probably become periodic, but maybe it wouldn’t. I hope it releases a couple sir robins, possibly with new Tagalongs.
Actually, 2->2->(doesn’t matter) =4, and that thing doesn’t stabilize in 4 generations, so you used Conway chained arrow notation wrong.
But regardless, that probably lasts on the order of 2^(2^(2^(2^(2^(2^(2^n)))))) (your estimate, likely more accurate, but those arrows are misleading. It's just 2^2^2^2^2^2^2^2... because those are chained log growths. Apologies If i'm wrong) or (2^(2^^^^^4))*4 (my estimate, based on your Conway chained arrows and a generous helping of assumed parentheses), and that is bigger than
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The important question is whether that pattern is a methuselah in the classical sense.
It has an enormous MCPS.
It was engineered.
Anyone who can recognize log(log(log(log(log...)))))) growth can tell it's got a long life.
However, Its lifespan is enormous, So we should call it a methuselah anyways.
According to the forum rules, Methuselahs larger than 20*20 in bounding box are uninteresting. However, in the case of a pattern with lifespan on the order of 2^(2^^^^^4)) it might be okay to make an exception.
EDIT:
As Dani says below, This kind of pattern could be referred to as an engineered methuselah. I guess they could be notable if they last a VERY VERY VERY long time, or if they have an unusual mechanism.
This variety runs on a mechanism that delays self destruction for a long long time.
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
I would use the term 'engineered methuselah' to refer to things like that. Kind of like engineered vs natural spaceships. Once loafer or one of the c/4s becomes natural we can call it natural...
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
Yeah, I was thinking along those lines.danny wrote:I would use the term 'engineered methuselah' to refer to things like that. Kind of like engineered vs natural spaceships. Once loafer or one of the c/4s becomes natural we can call it natural...
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
By removing all but one of the delay structures, I managed to, after something like 10^20 generations, see a glider hitting the spacefiller. The spreading chaos showed an interesting periodic rake-like structure propagating along the edge between vacuum and the agar, periodically sending out gliders. However, trying to copy a selection large enough to show this (it was about 10000x10000, which is large but microscopic compared to the whole pattern at that point) caused Golly to freeze entirely.
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
So it likely becomes periodic?77topaz wrote:By removing all but one of the delay structures, I managed to, after something like 10^20 generations, see a glider hitting the spacefiller. The spreading chaos showed an interesting periodic rake-like structure propagating along the edge between vacuum and the agar, periodically sending out gliders. However, trying to copy a selection large enough to show this (it was about 10000x10000, which is large but microscopic compared to the whole pattern at that point) caused Golly to freeze entirely.
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
The rake-like crawler (I'm not entirely sure what the right terminology would be) I saw moving along the side of the agar did indeed to be periodic, as it released gliders at regular intervals.
The pattern as a whole would also eventually become periodic (with the stipulation that each "eventually" will take an extremely long time): a glider eventually passes through the delay systems and hits the spacefiller's agar, causing the agar to break down. The disturbances propagate at light speed, and so eventually catch up to the corners of the spacefiller, causing its expansion to cease; the area covered by the spacefiller will then eventually settle down to regular CGoL ash.
The pattern as a whole would also eventually become periodic (with the stipulation that each "eventually" will take an extremely long time): a glider eventually passes through the delay systems and hits the spacefiller's agar, causing the agar to break down. The disturbances propagate at light speed, and so eventually catch up to the corners of the spacefiller, causing its expansion to cease; the area covered by the spacefiller will then eventually settle down to regular CGoL ash.
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
I’ve seen something like that rake-crawler happen on (smaller) spacefillers.77topaz wrote:The rake-like crawler (I'm not entirely sure what the right terminology would be) I saw moving along the side of the agar did indeed to be periodic, as it released gliders at regular intervals.
The pattern as a whole would also eventually become periodic (with the stipulation that each "eventually" will take an extremely long time): a glider eventually passes through the delay systems and hits the spacefiller's agar, causing the agar to break down. The disturbances propagate at light speed, and so eventually catch up to the corners of the spacefiller, causing its expansion to cease; the area covered by the spacefiller will then eventually settle down to regular CGoL ash.
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
Hm. It doesn't seem like just colliding a glider with the orthogonal edge of Halfmax is necessarily sufficient to get such a structure to appear:
It's likely that a different, specific phase alignment between the incoming glider and the wick that stabilises the orthogonal edge is required.
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
I'm not sure, but it actually propgates at 2c/3 vertically and c horizontally.77topaz wrote:The rake-like crawler (I'm not entirely sure what the right terminology would be) I saw moving along the side of the agar did indeed to be periodic, as it released gliders at regular intervals.
The pattern as a whole would also eventually become periodic (with the stipulation that each "eventually" will take an extremely long time): a glider eventually passes through the delay systems and hits the spacefiller's agar, causing the agar to break down. The disturbances propagate at light speed, and so eventually catch up to the corners of the spacefiller, causing its expansion to cease; the area covered by the spacefiller will then eventually settle down to regular CGoL ash.
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
Huh. Weird nonuniform speeds. But this makes sense, because with the grain negative spaceships go at c and against the grain negative spaceships travel at 2c/3testitemqlstudop wrote:I'm not sure, but it actually propgates at 2c/3 vertically and c horizontally.77topaz wrote:The rake-like crawler (I'm not entirely sure what the right terminology would be) I saw moving along the side of the agar did indeed to be periodic, as it released gliders at regular intervals.
The pattern as a whole would also eventually become periodic (with the stipulation that each "eventually" will take an extremely long time): a glider eventually passes through the delay systems and hits the spacefiller's agar, causing the agar to break down. The disturbances propagate at light speed, and so eventually catch up to the corners of the spacefiller, causing its expansion to cease; the area covered by the spacefiller will then eventually settle down to regular CGoL ash.
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I think it's the other way around. Those are the speeds people searched for ships because they observed that those were the speeds at which the agar collapsed.Moosey wrote:Huh. Weird nonuniform speeds. But this makes sense, because with the grain negative spaceships go at c and against the grain negative spaceships travel at 2c/3
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
Oh, that makes sense. But still, I guess you could argue that it makes sense because the negative spaceships go at those speeds because the agar decays at those speeds.Macbi wrote:I think it's the other way around. Those are the speeds people searched for ships because they observed that those were the speeds at which the agar collapsed.Moosey wrote:Huh. Weird nonuniform speeds. But this makes sense, because with the grain negative spaceships go at c and against the grain negative spaceships travel at 2c/3
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
21655 gen methuselah with nearly record-breaking F/I - rank #2, after simek's 24827M.
Pi + dove (is it a dove) + LOM predecessor = huge explosion, F/I is 274
Found with hacked apgsearch that does 10x10 soups and also catagolues f/i.
Census: b3s23/10x10
Pi + dove (is it a dove) + LOM predecessor = huge explosion, F/I is 274
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
Here's a 10-cell methuselah lasting 17,425 steps - thus beating bunnies10 by just 2 steps:
Step 30 of the pattern is almost the same as step 28 of bunnies10, but lacks a glider which the latter has just thrown off. It thus ends with a population of 1,744, including 40 gliders, as opposed to bunnies10's 1749 and 41 gliders. Since it's hardly a radical improvement, I suggest calling it bunnies10a. Its MCPS is 12, its bounding box 8*5.
A bit of background is available in the "Systematic survey of small patterns" thread.
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A bit of background is available in the "Systematic survey of small patterns" thread.
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
I think you must have miscounted its lifespan— that IS bunnies 10NickGotts wrote:Here's a 10-cell methuselah lasting 17,425 steps - thus beating bunnies10 by just 2 steps:Step 30 of the pattern is almost the same as step 28 of bunnies10, but lacks a glider which the latter has just thrown off. It thus ends with a population of 1,744, including 40 gliders, as opposed to bunnies10's 1749 and 41 gliders. Since it's hardly a radical improvement, I suggest calling it bunnies10a. Its MCPS is 12, its bounding box 8*5.Code: Select all
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A bit of background is available in the "Systematic survey of small patterns" thread.
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
Apologies, and thanks for pointing out the error - which was not a miscount, but a miscopy, posting bunnies10 rather than the true bunnies10a, which is:
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Oh! That’s neat, and now we need to make edits to the wiki.NickGotts wrote:Apologies, and thanks for pointing out the error - which was not a miscount, but a miscopy, posting bunnies10 rather than the true bunnies10a, which is:Code: Select all
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Edits made— now I need to have references properly made, as I have no Idea how to do it properly.
Since it’s closely related to bunnies 10, perhaps we should add an image and RLE to the wiki too.
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
With its smaller bounding box, this is clearly the preferred variant, and I suggest putting it in the wiki, and transferring the name bunnies10a to it, if A for Awesome agrees.A for Awesome wrote (on the Systematic survey of small patterns thread:
Trivial variant with a smaller bounding box:
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However, given that it had already been generated by my search, but I failed to notice it i.e. to check exactly how long it lasted (I just thought: "Ho-hum, another one of those"), it might be best to hold the wiki edit while I check the other similar patterns which have already been generated, which I can do tomorrow, just in case there's another pattern that lasts as long or even longer.
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
OK, I can confirm that the two 10-cell patterns already reported are the only 17425-step methuselahs to turn up so far.
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
My "very impressive" methuselah. A lifespan of 8472 ticks.
I kinda bragged in the trust thread that I had something cool to post here. I'm sure a few of you could tell from the start that I probably didn't have anything special. I made this thing like 2 years ago (5/4/17) and when I posted in the thread all I remembered about it was that it was "small" and had a low initial population. Maybe to my standards it was but looking at the rest, it isn't small nor does it have a low IP. It's in a 20x18 bounding box and has a population of 24.
So at this point I don't still believe it should be on the wiki, maybe this isn't even the right thread to post it in. At the very least it could serve as some kind of example.
I kinda bragged in the trust thread that I had something cool to post here. I'm sure a few of you could tell from the start that I probably didn't have anything special. I made this thing like 2 years ago (5/4/17) and when I posted in the thread all I remembered about it was that it was "small" and had a low initial population. Maybe to my standards it was but looking at the rest, it isn't small nor does it have a low IP. It's in a 20x18 bounding box and has a population of 24.
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So at this point I don't still believe it should be on the wiki, maybe this isn't even the right thread to post it in. At the very least it could serve as some kind of example.
Re: Long-lived methuselahs
I would recommend you read the rules since it is a helpful guide on what is notable.
I'm glad you judged well, though:
I'm glad you judged well, though:
Nathaniel wrote:Some specific examples of discoveries that won't be of interest to this community include:
A new still life.
A methuselah that lasts fewer than 20,000 generations or is larger than a 20-by-20 box.
An alternate stabilization for a reaction (unless it is smaller than the smallest currently known).
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Re: Long-lived methuselahs
Two less cells:
Gasp! A canoe in the ash!
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