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Actually, I've been running higher-period searches with ntzfind 3.0 for quite a long time without reporting anything. I haven't had a single positive result, but you may find my spreadsheet of negatives useful: partials.zip Most of the searches took a negligible amount of time - a few hours at most....

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A 1058-gen diehard popped up in C1, beating the previous record of 1041: x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 bbobbbbboboooooo$ bobbboooboobbboo$ ooobobooooobbobo$ bbboboobobboobob$ ooooooobbooooobo$ bobobboboooboobo$ oobooooooooobobo$ ooboobobobbobbbo$ bboboooooobbbobb$ bboooobbobbbobbb$ bobboooobbbbbbbb$...

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Is this the smallest single strict still life that produces an LWSS when hit by a glider? x = 13, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 bo10bo$b3o6b2o$4bo6b2o$3bo2bo$3bob2o$2b2o$3bo$3o$o! No, Pentadecathlon.com lists this 14-cell still life: x = 10, y = 7, rule = B3/S23 b2o$o2bo$bo2bo$2b2obo$4bo2b2o$bobo3bobo$b2o4b...

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Here's a 601-generation 10x10 diehard:

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x = 10, y = 10, rule = B35y/S2-n35k6ci
2bo4b2o$obo2b3obo$obo$2o5bo$5b2o$3bo5bo$7b3o$2obobo$bo4bo$4bo!

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440-generation 10x10 diehard, found after running gameoflifemaniac + dvgrn's script for 6 hours: x = 10, y = 10, rule = B35y/S2-n35k6ci 4bo2b2o$5b3o$o2bo2bo$3o3bo2bo$bo2bobo2bo$o3bobo2bo$2o3b2obo$obo2bobo$ 4bo3bo$o4b2obo! EDIT: Some seeds for the P54, possibly 7G+cleanup? x = 101, y = 65, rule = B35...

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975-generation diehard, found by one of rliston’s instances: Haul x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 booobboboboobbob$ bboooooobobooooo$ boobbobobboboooo$ obbbbbobbboooboo$ ooooooobobooobbo$ oooooboboboobboo$ oobbbbbbooobbbbo$ bobboooboooobboo$ bobboooobobbobbo$ bbbbobboboobbobb$ bbboboooobbobbbo$ ooboob...

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The last 13-bit object has appeared in C1! It was of course discovered by one of Adam's instances. Soup: x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23 bbobbobbbobooobb$ boobbobbooboboob$ obbbbbbbobobbooo$ boooboooobobbooo$ obobobbooboooooo$ boobbbooobbobobo$ bobbbbboobobbbbb$ oobboobbbobooooo$ bobbbbobbbobobbb$ oo...

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Hello again. I apologise for double posting, but I've decided to release my script and every oscillator it found. Be warned: my code is NOT for the faint of heart. greycellsoscs.zip Many of the oscillators are hopeless - especially the ones with blocker cells buried inside the rotor. Some oscillator...

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Hi everyone. I’ve been logging in almost every day for the last 3 years, although I don’t post very often. I never introduced myself in 2015, so I suppose I’ll just do it now. I’m a data analyst at a large bank, based in the UK. In my spare time I press refresh on conwaylife, and collect and solve t...

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I wrote a simple search program and found 1,560 oscillators that use the "blocker" cells. Here are some rare periods: x = 213, y = 268, rule = extendedlife 74.E13.E.E$45.E.3E7.E2AE12.3A16.E45.2AE10.E$45.E.E.E6.2A2.A11.A3.A12. A10.2A2.2E8.EAE6.2A11.E.A2.A8.3A15.E$45.E.3E6.2A.2A10.EA3.AE7.E3.2A9. A.E3...

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How does 44p14 look like? This would be much easier to answer if you give a little context in the question. Where did you run into a reference to "44p14"? It seems like there might have been a typo somewhere along the line for 34p14 . The Wiki page for Tumbler mentions a 44P14, discovered in 1997.

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Hunting wrote:Wow!

Please don’t post single-word replies on threads that have been dead for over a year. It needlessly clutters up the forums.

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Is there a reason we have 14 pages for bipole extensions?

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This morning, after coming back from holiday, I proved greycells/OffNeutronium/ExtendedLifeButNotAsGood omniperiodic. I'm quite happy with this result, especially considering the time I spent soup searching, and considering how close this rule is to Life - maybe some of the higher period oscillators...

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BlinkerSpawn wrote:30:

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x = 11, y = 9, rule = LifeHistory
7.C$.A4.C.A.C$A.C3.C2.CA$.C3.AC$4.C4.2A$4.C4.C$3.AC.AC.A$2.A2.C2.A$2.
CA2.AC!

I think that’s optimal, well done.

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34: x = 10, y = 11, rule = LifeHistory 2.AC.CA$3.C.A.A.C$2AC5.AC$C2$5.2A.C$2.A2.A.CA$2.3C$5.A3C$4.C4.A$4.2A 2.CA! I can't see any obvious ways to get lower. Fairly certain 34 is optimal, so you get to submit a puzzle. Brilliant. Here's my challenge: x = 10, y = 9, rule = LifeHistory 6.C$5.C3.C$.C3....

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34:

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x = 10, y = 11, rule = LifeHistory
2.AC.CA$3.C.A.A.C$2AC5.AC$C2$5.2A.C$2.A2.A.CA$2.3C$5.A3C$4.C4.A$4.2A
2.CA!

I can't see any obvious ways to get lower.

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Pretty good for someone learning the ropes. Here's another one: x = 10, y = 11, rule = LifeHistory 3.C.C$3.C5.C$2.C6.C$C2$8.C$7.C$2.3C$6.3C$4.C$8.C! I got 37 after some playing around: x = 10, y = 13, rule = LifeHistory 2.AC.CA$3.C.2A$2AC$C$4.2A$4.A.A.C$6.AC.A$2.3CA3.A$.A4.3C$2.2AC.A$4.A$ 4.A.A$5.2...

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c/15 asymmetric width 6 is negative after 4126417.594000 seconds, or 47.76 days. You might be wondering why I ran this particular search, and why I let it for this long. Well, when I was combing through low-width high-period spaceship searches, I started with asymmetric ships under the assumption t...

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c/15 asymmetric width 6 is negative after 4126417.594000 seconds, or 47.76 days. You might be wondering why I ran this particular search, and why I let it for this long. Well, when I was combing through low-width high-period spaceship searches, I started with asymmetric ships under the assumption th...

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Block-on-dock puffer.

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x = 35, y = 15, rule = DeficientLife
.2A29.2A$A2.A27.A2.A$.2A29.2A8$6.J20.JA$5.A.C18.2A.A$5.A.A17.F3.A$6.
2A18.3A$27.F!

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Octagon 2 -> Harbor x = 19, y = 17, rule = B3/S23 7bo3bo$7bobobo$6b3ob3o$6bo5bo2$3b2o2bo3bo2b2o$b3o2bob3obo2b3o$3bo3bo3b o3bo$2bo4bo3bo4bo$3bo3bo3bo3bo$b3o2bob3obo2b3o$3b2o2bo3bo2b2o2$6bo5bo$ 6b3ob3o$7bobobo$7bo3bo! Edit: I realised in the bath that this is not even an Octagon 2, it's an Octagon 3. ...

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That's a nice set of results, a shame they're all negative, but not too surprising. A few of them are duplicates of earlier results posted here, but it's good to have a summary of these higher period results in one place. Some of the previous results: 5c/11, w10; 3c/13, w7 Thanks. The duplicate res...

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Super loaf in 10 gliders:

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x = 31, y = 31, rule = Life
20bo$20bobo$11bo8b2o$12b2o$11b2o3$9bo$8bobo$7bo2bo$8b2o$2bobo$3b2o$3bo
14bo$17b2o$17bobo$29b2o$14b2o12b2o$13b2o15bo$15bo$3o$2bo$bo6$17bo$16b
2o$16bobo!

Used to take 30.

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