Loop

	Loop
	<a href="/wiki/File:Loop.png" class="image" title="Loop image"><img alt="Loop image" src="/w/images/2/21/Loop.png" decoding="async" width="114" height="98" /></a>
	<a href="/wiki/File:Loop.png" class="image" title="Loop image"><img alt="Loop image" src="/w/images/2/21/Loop.png" decoding="async" width="114" height="98" /></a>
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Pattern type	Strict still life
Number of cells	10
Bounding box	5 × 4
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B/S23 – B3678/S012345678
# of rules	211 = 2048
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	5
Uploaded synthesis RLE	loop_synth.rle
Pattern files
Plaintext	loop.cells
RLE	loop.rle

"Loop" may also refer to the glider-bouncing reaction listed under glider loop.

Loop (or curl^[1] or long hat^[2]) is a 10-cell still life.

Commonness

Loop is the fortieth most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than scorpion but more common than fourteener.^[3] It is also the fourty-nineth most common object on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue.^[4]

↑ "Curl". The Life Lexicon. Stephen Silver. Retrieved on June 3, 2009.
↑ "Long hat". The Life Lexicon. Stephen Silver. Retrieved on June 3, 2009.
↑ Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on January 15, 2009.
↑ Adam P. Goucher. "Statistics". Catagolue. Retrieved on June 24, 2016.