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* [[282P6H2V1]], the first elementary [[knightship]] in [[Conway's Game of Life|Life]], is discovered by [[Adam P. Goucher]] and [[Tom Rokicki]].
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* '''March 27-28''': [[Entity Valkyrie]] [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=181171#p181171 completes] a 2c/3 receiver with a [[repeat time]] of 876 ticks, which [[Adam P. Goucher]] improves to 834 ticks later the same day with a [[staged recovery]] mechanism, and Entity Valkyrie then reduces to a much simpler 826-tick mechanism the next day; the previous record-setting receivers needed 964 or 970 ticks to recover.
* '''March 20''': [[Period1GliderGun]] [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=180679#p180679 discovers] a period-26 [[bouncer]]-based reflector, the first independent reflector of this period, using components by [[Nico Brown]] and [[Dean Hickerson]].
* '''March 19''': [[Keith Amling]] [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=180587#p180587 constructs] new p6 [[c/2 orthogonal]] [[greystretcher]]s in which the stripes are bounded by extended [[table]]s.
* '''March 18''': [[Nathaniel Johnston]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfmCyrfxkTM posts a YouTube video] about the discovery of the [[true]] [[period-15 glider gun]] and [[period-16 glider gun]], and the history leading up to those discoveries.
* '''March 17''': [[James Pascua]] [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1437&p=180474#p180474 discovers] the first period-16 90-degree independent [[reflector]] based on a suggestion by [[Matthias Merzenich]], using the [[period-16 glider gun]] to hassle a honey farm predecessor and produce a [[banana spark]]. 90-degree reflectors are known for all periods except 14, 17, and 19 with periods 15, 23, and 26 having only [[dependent reflector]]s.
* '''March 16-17''': [[Keith Amling]] [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=180367#p180367 completes] a new [[c/4 diagonal]] unstable [[puffer engine]] (only the third known puffer engine at this speed) based on a partial result by Matthias Merzenich. [[Caleb R. Hilton]] uses sparkers to [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=180370#p180370 stabilise] the unstable engine into explicit puffers. [[David Bell]] uses this engine to [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=180388#p180388 construct] the first p52 c/4 diagonal rake, and "b3s23love" and Merzenich use it to substantially [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=180390#p180390 reduce] the size of the p108 c/4 diagonal rake.
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