Symmetric scorpion

	Symmetric scorpion
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Pattern type	Strict still life
Number of cells	16
Bounding box	7 × 5
Static symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B/S23 – B3678/S012345678
# of rules	211 = 2048
Pattern files
Plaintext	symmetricscorpion.cells
RLE	symmetricscorpion.rle

Symmetric scorpion is a 16-bit still life.

Commonness

Symmetric scorpion is the seventy-third most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than great snake eater but more common than cis-loaf with tail.^[1] It is also the eighty-sixth most common object on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue.^[2]