Million-Pound Challenge!

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Billabob
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Million-Pound Challenge!

Post by Billabob » April 24th, 2015, 11:03 am

I will give ONE MILLION POUNDS to whoever discovers a spaceship in B4/S34.
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Re: Million-Pound Challenge!

Post by Kiran » April 24th, 2015, 12:31 pm

That is impossible because no pattern in that rule can escape from it's building box.
Any cell outside the building box has up to 3 neighbours inside.
Therefore, for a cell to be born outside there already has to be a cell outside.
Therefore for a pattern to be a spaceship, it has to have cells outside it's own building box.
Since a spaceship, by definition, is finite this is a contradiction.
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Re: Million-Pound Challenge!

Post by Billabob » April 24th, 2015, 1:31 pm

Kiran wrote:That is impossible because no pattern in that rule can escape from it's building box.
Any cell outside the building box has up to 3 neighbours inside.
Therefore, for a cell to be born outside there already has to be a cell outside.
Therefore for a pattern to be a spaceship, it has to have cells outside it's own building box.
Since a spaceship, by definition, is finite this is a contradiction.
My apologies. I δiδ know that this is the case, which is the reason I offered "One million pounds" to whoever is able to do so. I should probably delete this forum, as it useless.

EDIT: Ah, it seems I am unable to delete it...
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Re: Million-Pound Challenge!

Post by Haycat2009 » June 24th, 2023, 11:09 am

Give me 90 different reasons to find a spaceship in this rule and I might use apgsearch.
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