Sqrtgun

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A sqrtgun[note 1] is any glider-emitting pattern which emits its nth glider at a time asymptotically proportional to n². The first examples were constructed by Dean Hickerson around 1991.

Also see

Notes

  1. ↑ The name is a pun on "squirt gun" and "sqrt", i.e. "square root".

External links

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