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Is it possible to emulate a non-Turing machine computer using the Margolus family?
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- August 29th, 2011, 11:30 am
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: BBM: Turing Complete?
- Replies: 3
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- August 29th, 2011, 11:14 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Search for the Largest Methuselah and Other Questions
- Replies: 9
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Re: Search for the Largest Methuselah
Methuselahs are meant to be as small as possible. Otherwise, I could have the following pattern as a megatick methuselah: x = 250005, y = 250004, rule = B3/S23 2o$2o250000$250002b2o$250002bobo$250002bo! Megatick, indeed... One million generations probably counts as an ultra-tick methuselah. By the ...
- August 28th, 2011, 10:34 am
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Search for the Largest Methuselah and Other Questions
- Replies: 9
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Re: Search for the Largest Methuselah
Maybe this is just a noob question, but I was wondering why the bounding box for most of the methuselahs is 20x20. Why not 40x40 or even 60x60? And what do you think is the best soup search algorithm?
- August 27th, 2011, 5:38 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Search for the Largest Methuselah and Other Questions
- Replies: 9
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Search for the Largest Methuselah and Other Questions
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