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This article is made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of LifeLine. It is inspired by this article, which did not mention imaginary numbers. CA-related entries are preferred.
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Choose a set: C-R | (-∞, 0) | [0, 4) | [4, 10) | [10, 32) | [32, 100) | [100, 317) |
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Positive prime numbers
Number (excluding positive prime numbers) whose absolute value is an integer
Number whose absolute value is a rational number that is not integer
Number whose absolute value is an algebraic irrational number
Number whose absolute value is a transcendental real number
Unknown/approximation
[0,4)
0
- ... is the smallest non-negative number.
- ... is the population of Vacuum.
- ... is the final population of sparks.
- ... is the lifespan of still lifes / oscillators / spaceships when they're treated as methuselahs.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a pulsar in Life. (xp0_vhv)
- ... is the number of distinct Gardens of Eden among polyominoes with 5 or less cells.
- ... is the number of sparks among polyominoes with 3 or 4 cells in Life.
- ... is the number of distinct induction coils among polyominoes with 1, 2 and 5 cells.
See also:
0.25
0.25-0.3
- ... is the approximate density of a spacedusty oscillator or spaceship.
4/9
- ... is the density of any stable 3×3 agar.
1/2
- ... is the default soup density on Catagolue.
- ... is the maximum density of a still life agar on an infinite grid.
- ... as c/2, is the maximum orthogonal speed of a spaceship in Life and any totalistic or INT rule not containing B0, B1e, B1c, or B2a.
- ... as c/2, is the speed of the LWSS, MWSS, and HWSS.
5/9
- ... is the speed of the signal that travels in 5c/9 wire.
2/3
- ... is the approximate proportion of blinkers that form from traffic lights.
- ... is the speed of many against the grain spaceships.
- ... is the speed of the signal that travels in 2c/3 wire.
- ... is the speed of some blinker fuses.
4/5
- ... is the volatility of the blinker, toad, and clock.
- ... is the fuse speed in the Fermat prime calculator.
1
- ... is the smallest positive whole number.
- ... is the period of a still life.
- ... is the number of 5-cell strict still lifes.
- ... is the number of 8-cell pseudo still lifes.
- ... is the number of diagonal spaceships that have appeared naturally.
- ... is the number of distinct haplominoes.
- ... is the number of distinct dominoes.
- ... is the number of induction coils among triominoes.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a traffic light in Life. (xp0_v)
See also:
φ (1.618...)
- ... is the ratio between number of possibilities for a one-thick pattern with N+1 cells and N cells, ignoring lines of 1 and 2 that die out immediately.
2
- ... is the smallest positive prime number.
- ... is the minimum number of rotor cells in an oscillator.
- ... is the minimum number of cells in an oscillator in a non-strobing Life-like rule.
- ... is the number of triominoes.
- ... is the number of 4-cell strict still lifes.
- ... is the period of the blinker, toad, and spark coil.
- ... is the period of the lowest-period spaceship.
- ... neighboring cells allows them to survive, but not be born.
- ... is the minimum number of gliders needed for a collision.
- ... is the mod of all four common spaceships.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a quasi still life in Life. (xp0_tln)
- ... is Nathaniel Johnston's forum user ID.
See also:
≈2.46
- ... is the ratio between strict still lifes with N+1 cells and N cells.
≈2.56
- ... is the ratio between pseudo still lifes with N+1 cells and N cells.
≈2.77
- ... is the ratio of block-laying switch engines to glider-producing switch engines in natural soups.
3
- ... is the smallest positive odd prime number.
- ... neighboring cells allows them to survive and be born.
- ... is the period of the pulsar, jam, and caterer.
- ... is the population of the smallest oscillator in Life.
- ... is the population of the smallest spaceship in a non-strobing INT rule.
- ... is the population of the smallest induction coil in Life.
- ... is the number of induction coils among tetrominoes.
- ... is the number of beehive predecessors among the tetrominoes in Life.
- ... is the minimum number of cells that doesn't result in death at the end per pre-block and blinker.
- ... is the minimum number of gliders for infinite growth.
See also:
≈2.56
- ... is the ratio between quasi still lifes with N+1 cells and N cells.
≈3.237
- ... is the inverse frequency of the block in a Catagolue soup.
≈3.486
- ... is the inverse frequency of the blinker in a Catagolue soup.
[4,10)
4
- ... is the smallest positive composite number.
- ... is the minimum number of cells that can form a pond or traffic light.
- ... is the population of the smallest still life in Life.
- ... is the number of cells the block has.
- ... is the number of standard spaceships.
- ... is the perimeter of the dot.
- ... is the period of all four standard spaceships.
- ... is the period of mold and mazing.
- ... is the heat of the glider.
- ... is the number of 7-cell strict still lifes.
- ... is the number of objects in a traffic light, blockade, and honey farm.
- ... is the recovery time of the fishhook eating a glider.
- ... is the largest possible quotient between an oscillator's period and mod.
- ... has more than one oscillator with this period tied for smallest.
5
- ... is the number of 6-cell strict still lifes.
- ... is the population of the smallest still life in Star Wars (345/2/4).
- ... is the number of sparks among pentominoes in Life.
- ... is the lifespan of the longest-lasting spark among pentominoes in Life.
- ... is the minimum number of cells that allows significant growth (R-pentomino and pi-heptomino grandparent).
- ... is the number of distinct triplets.
- ... is the number of tetrominoes where both reflection and rotation are considered the same object.
- ... is the period of octagon 2 and fumarole.
- ... is the number of objects in the ash of Octomino II.
- ... is the minimum height of a period-3 spaceship.
- ... is the number of generations between the longest-lasting 6-cell object and the R-pentomino that it becomes.
6
- ... is the smallest positive composite squarefree number.
- ... is the number of cells in the toad.
- ... cells does not last much more than the longest 5-cell object (1108 generations versus 1103).
- ... is the number of cells in both phases of the toad and one phase of the beacon.
- ... is the period of unix.
- ... is the number of distinct 8-cell quasi still lifes.
- ... is the smallest trivial oscillator period.
- ... neighboring cells allowing birth is the difference between Life and HighLife.
- ... is the minimum number of cells for any predecessor of lumps of muck, teardrop,butterfly, honey farm, I-heptomino, E-heptomino, F-heptomino, blonk-tie, and U-turner.
- ... cells in a row produces a 12-generation spark.
- ... is the number of blinkers in an interchange.
- ... is the number of isotropic transitions possible for 2 or 6 neighbors (a, c, e, i, n, k).
| The six distinct 8-cell quasi still lifes. (click above to open LifeViewer) |
≈6.109
- ... is the inverse frequency of the beehive in a Catagolue soup.
7
- ... is the highest-period searched-for pipsquirter known.
- ... has more than one known oscillator with this period tied for smallest: burloaferimeter, 28P7.1, 28P7.2 and 28P7.3.
- ... is the period of the loafer.
- ... is the number of 10-cell pseudo still lifes.
- ... is the number of currently known distinct 5-cell glider predecessors (including the two distinct phases of the glider).
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a half-blockade in Life. (xp0_11v)
- ... is the population of the smallest pure glider generator among polyominoes in Life.
- ... is the smallest period oscillator not to appear in C1, although it has appeared in G1.
- ... neighboring cells allowing birth is the difference between Life and DryLife.
- ... is the smallest number of cells required for an asymmetric still life (fishhook).
- ... is the number of unknown fate heptominoes in Lifeline Volume 1.
- ... is the number of generations in many 2-cell traffic light push reactions.
8
- ... is the smallest positive composite cubic number.
- ... is the period of figure eight and blocker.
- ... is the highest symmetry order on a square grid.
- ... is the number of objects in the ash of a line of 8 cells.
- ... is the maximum number of neighbors a cell can have.
- ... is the minimum population of any predecessor of an LWSS.
- ... is the output duration of a pi-to-pi conduit (PT8P).
- ... is the minimum number of cells that allows arbitrarily long settling time, by making a glider hit a faraway blinker.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a spark in Life. (xp0_vlv)
- ... is the lowest positive integer n for which an elementary c/n spaceship is possible but not known.
- ... is the number of hours between Catagolue updates.
- ... is the smallest n for which (a,b)c/n is not known for all possible a and b in INT rules.
9
- ... is the largest single-digit number.
- ... is the period of snacker and worker bee.
- ... is the smallest period oscillator that hasn't appeared in an asymmetric soup.
- ... is the number of 8-cell strict still lifes.
- ... is the minimum population of an LWSS.
- ... is the highest-period usable intentional domino sparker produced with a search program (104P9).
- ... is the population of rabbits.
[10,32)
10
- ... is the smallest 2-digit number.
- ... is the period of 55P10, a useful sparker.
- ... is the period of the copperhead spaceships.
- ... generations of the R-pentomino sequence results in a polyomino with 11 cells.
- ... is the lifespan of the longest-lived heptomino diehard in Life. There are two heptominoes like this, and their apgcodes are anagrams of each other.[citation needed]
- ... is the minimum population required for infinite growth.
- ... is the number of 9-cell strict still lifes.
- ... cells in a row forms a pentadecathlon.
- ... is the number of isotropic transitions possible for 3 or 5 neighbors (a,c,e,i,j,n,k,q,r,y).
- ... is the number of entries per page that Catagolue gives you for period 10+ oscillators.
- ... 平方の空真四角はLake 2になる (?)
11
- ... is the smallest 2-digit palindrome.
- ... is the period of rattlesnake, a useful dot sparker.
- ... is the period of the highest-period domino sparker with a JLS/WLS/LLS search program, although it has extremely low clearance.
- ... is the heat of the LWSS.
- ... is the number of cells in the polyomino that results by advancing the R-pentomino 10 generations.
- ... is the number of generations in several pre-pulsar shuttle 3-cell push reactions.
- ... has a still life named after its population (elevener).
- ... is the number of Lifeline volumes.
≈11.38
- ... is the inverse frequency of the glider in a C1 Catagolue soup. Note that this is highly dependent on soup size.
12
- ... is the population of the smallest period-3, 4, 8, and 15 oscillators: caterer, mold, mazing, figure eight, and pentadecathlon.
- ... is the lifespan of the line of six cells before completely dying.
- ... is the number of pentominoes.
- ... is the number of gliders emitted from a gliders by the dozen reaction.
- ... is the population where the number of period-2 oscillators starts picking up. [1]
- ... is the population of the ship-tie, a decently common still life.
- ... is the population of the traffic light.
- ... is the period of baker's dozen, crown and 44P12.3.
- ... is the period of the Schick engine, which has appeared naturally.
- ... is the reciprocal of the speed of the switch engine and all Corderships.
- ... is the maximum number of cells you can have at a time in lifecompetes.
- ... is the number of chapters in Conway's Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction.
13
- ... is the period of 53P13, 66P13, Beluchenko's p13, and Buckingham's p13.
- ... is the number of isotropic transitions possible for 4 neighbors (a,c,e,i,j,n,k,q,r,t,w,y,z).
- ... is the number of engines in the first known Cordership.
- ... is the number of distinct 9-cell quasi still lifes.
- ... is in the username of user May13.
| The thirteen distinct 9-cell quasi still lifes. (click above to open LifeViewer) |
See also:
- Pre-block (xp0_13)
14
- ... is the period of the tumbler and 34P14 shuttle.
- ... is the number of generations in several pre-pulsar shuttle 3-cell push reactions.
- ... is the number of sparks among hexominoes.
- ... is the convex hull perimeter of the hexomino with the largest convex hull perimeter.
- ... is the population of the half-bakery, a decently common still life.
- ... has a still life named after its population (fourteener).
- ... is the minimum possible period of a glider stream or glider gun, and the same with LWSSes.
- ... is the smallest positive integer N for which the "Category: Oscillators with mod N" does not currently exist on LifeWiki.
See also:
- MWSS spark (xp0_14)
15
- ... is the period of the pentadecathlon.
- ... is the mod of the queen bee shuttle.
- ... is the number of generations needed for the pre-pulsar to replicate itself.
- ... is the number of generations the table lasts before completely dying.
- ... is the population of the smallest known trivial oscillator in Life (blinker on caterer).
- ... is the population of Beethoven and the ash of century.
- ... is the heat of the MWSS.
- ... is the minimum period that the bi-block hassler works at.
- ... is the number of still lifes with still life frequency greater than 1 in 10,000.
- ... is the number of oscillator periods that have appeared in C1 or G1 on Catagolue, including period 1.
16
- ... is the period of Rich's p16, Achim's p16, and Rob's p16.
- ... is the final population of blockade.
- ... is the default edge length in Catagolue soups.
- ... is the minimum possible period for a MWSS stream.
- ... or more cells gives 7 or more period-3 oscillators, while 15 or fewer cells gives 0 or 1.
- ... is the final population of the U-turner sequence (xp0_211 u).
- ... is the number of symmetries a still life can have.
- ... is the period of the Coe ship, which has appeared naturally.
- ... is the largest "small still life" size that appears in #catagolue on Discord.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 5×5 box.
17
- ... is the smallest period for which no sparker of any type is known.
- ... is the smallest period for which no oscillator was known for a long time.
- ... is the period of honey thieves.
- ... is the lifespan of the bun.
- ... is the number of gliders needed for universal construction.
- ... is the number of columns needed in a 2×N solid block to escape its bounding box horizontally.
- ... is the numerator of 17c/45, the speed of the caterpillar.
- ... is the number of 6-cell patterns that evolve into a single ship, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
- ... is the number of hexaplets that evolve into a single pond.
- ... is the number of hexaplets that evolve into a single boat.
- ... is the number of hexaplets that evolve into the R-pentomino sequence.
- ... is the maximum lifespan of a 6-cell object that dies out completely and doesn't form a Z-hexomino.
See also:
- Tail (xp0_17)
18
- ... is the minimum possible period for a HWSS stream.
- ... is the highest-period known billiard table without symmetry or a phase shift reaction (Merzenich's p18).
- ... is the final population of the interchange.
- ... is the total number of possible transitions in isotropic rules: 9 birth, 9 survival.
- ... is the final population of the dove sequence.
- ... is the minimum known period XWSS gun, although all are pseudo-period.
- ... is the lowest known period independent glider reflector.
- ... is the base-2 logarithm of the cell size of the 0E0P metacell.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 6×6 box.
19
20
- ... is the minimum known true-period gun.
- ... was a common edge length for soups before Catagolue settled on 16×16, for instance Andrzej Okrasinski's census.
- ... is the lifespan of the teardrop.
- ... is the period of the ecologist.
- ... is the number of cells the front edge of the pi-heptomino moves forward from its initial position to its peak.
- ... is the maximum number of cells that all still lifes are known to be synthesizable.
- ... is the number of 14-cell period-2 oscillators.
- ... is the minimum repeat time of the two pond and two block reaction.
- ... is the population of the queen bee shuttle.
- ... is the minimum population of any spaceship other than the standard four, such as the loafer and several flotillae.
- ... is the final population of the Octomino II sequence.
- ... is the default number of recent patterns and recent scripts in Golly.
- ... is the maximum number of a particular object where Catagolue credits a discovery for a new object.
- ... is the number of 6-cell patterns that evolve into a single tub, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
≈20.71
- ... is the inverse frequency of the loaf in a Catagolue soup.
21
- ... is the period of the lowest odd true period glider gun.
- ... is the period of a pipsquirter that's a honey farm hassler.
- ... is the population of the smallest known predecessors for both gosper glider gun and Simkin glider gun in Life.
- ... is the expansion factor of Sawtooth 1212.
- ... is the number of states in StateInvestigator.
- ... is in the username of JP21.
- ... is in the username of Prime Raptor21.
- ... is the number of hexaplets that evolve into the century sequence.
≈21.85
- ... is the average number of objects per C1 Catagolue soup.
22
- ... had no known oscillators with that period until the 1990s, but now has several examples.
- ... was the smallest-known period gun until the period-20 glider gun was discovered.
- ... is the population of 22P36.
- ... is the number of generations difference between H and H'.
- ... is the lifespan of the cap.
- ... is the number of tetraplets.
- ... is in the name of Rule 22.
≈22.44
- ... is the inverse frequency of the boat in a Catagolue soup.
23
- ... is the period of David Hilbert, the first period-23 oscillator, discovered in 2019.
- ... is the mod of the twin bees shuttle.
- ... is the minimum known number of cells needed for quadratic growth per switch engine ping-pong.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, shows a ship-tie in its ash in Life. (There is also another temporary ship-tie as well) (xp0_tln0llv)
- ... is in the username of wwei23.
- ... is the smallest positive integer N for which the "Category: Strict still lifes with N cells" does not currently exist on LifeWiki.
- ... is in the waterbear's speed: (23,5)c/79.
- ... is the number of hexaplets that evolve into a honey farm.
24
- ... is the period of many hasslers and shuttles, in addition to dueling banjos.
- ... is the period of the most common LCM oscillator, pulsar on figure eight (boring p24 and uninteresting p24).
- ... is the population of the honey farm and fleet.
- ... is the final population of the Herschel.
- ... is the largest known n where a 1 by n rectangle is a spark in Life.
- ... is the number of neighbors (excluding the cell itself) in a range-2 Moore neighborhood.
- ... is the number of times a switch engine (by itself) reappears before being destroyed by its own exhaust.
- ... is the spacing between periods in many adjustable glider shuttles (e.g. 42+24N, 174+24N).
- ... is the inverse speed of the spaceship form of DOGun SaGaQR.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a boat in Life.
- ... is the number of heptominoes with any form of symmetry.
25
- ... is the period of the p25 pre-pulsar shuttle.
- ... is the number of 10-cell strict still lifes.
- ... is the lifespan of the traffic jam reaction.
- ... is the population of the smallest c/3 spaceships (25P3H1V0) and smallest non-glider c/4 spaceship (crab).
- ... is the expansion factor of Sawtooth 1846.
- ... is the number of objects the R-pentomino turns into, including gliders.
- ... is the default number of posts per page on the forums.
26
- ... is the number of neighbors (excluding the cell itself) in a range-1 3D Moore neighborhood.
- ... ticks from the pi-heptomino shows two other pi-heptominoes.
- ... is the population of Beluchenko's p40.
- ... is the number of states in LifeSuper.
- ... is the number of possible isotropic non-totalistic transitions in a hexagonal grid: 13 birth, 13 survival.
- ... is the only period where a dependent reflector but not an independent reflector is known.
27
- ... had no known oscillators of that period until the 1990s.
- ... is the period of 56P27 and the period-27 glider gun.
- ... is the initial population of the 14911M.
- ... is the number of still lifes with still life frequency greater than 1 in 100,000.
- ... is the smallest known period for c/3 rakes.
- ... is the number of heptominoes that die out completely.
- ... is the smallest known non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, shows a complete fleet in its ash in Life. (xp0_tln011v)
28
- ... is a common period for pre-pulsar shuttles, which can be made in many different ways.
- ... is the final population of the B-heptomino sequence.
- ... is the minimum population of the Kok's galaxy.
- ... is the population of all three phases of cross, one of which is a polyomino.
- ... is the population of the bakery.
- ... is the maximum population of any phase of the teardrop sequence.
- ... is the number of live cells in the 39×1 1-cell thick infinite growth pattern.
- ... generations after an R-pentomino forms a B-heptaplet, equivalent to the B-heptomino.
- ... is the minimum population of the copperhead.
- ... is the minimum population of any period-7 oscillator, of which four with this population are known.
- ... is the number of two-glider collisions that die out completely.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 7×7 box.
- ... is the number of 6-cell patterns that evolve into the century sequence, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
29
- ... is a common period for pre-pulsar shuttles, which can be made in many different ways.
- ... is the number of cells the front edge of the B-heptomino moves forward from its initial position to its peak (it recedes one cell afterwards).
- ... is the number of 15-cell period-2 oscillators.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a clean blinker in Life. (xp0_tln0nlv)
30
- ... is a common period for pre-pulsar shuttles, which can be made in many different ways.
- ... is the period of the queen bee shuttle and the Gosper glider gun.
- ... is the minimum population of 30P5H2V0, the smallest 2c/5 orthogonal spaceship.
- ... is the default percentage for random fill in Golly.
- ... generations into the pi-heptomino sequence, a sibling of the pi-heptomino appears up front.
- ... is the minimum category for megasized patterns on Catagolue (30h).
- ... is the number of hexaplets that evolve into a single block.
- ... is the number of 5-cell patterns that evolve into a single loaf, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
31
- ... is the period of Merzenich's p31, a very useful sparker.
- ... is the population of the large still life used in the original and Spartan version of Snark.
- ... is the number of oscillators with oscillator frequency greater than 1 in 1 billion.
- ... is the minimum population of Eater 3.
- ... is the numerator of 31c/240, the speed of several engineered spaceships.
- ... is the edge length of a D4_+1 or D8_1 Catagolue soup.
[32,100)
32
- ... is the period of gourmet and several other pi-turning reactions.
- ... was the number of gliders required for universal construction before being reduced to 17.
- ... is the most zoomed in scale in Golly (1:32).
- ... is the population of the smallest triple pseudo still life.
- ... is the number of generations it takes for the long table to become a pulsar.
- ... is the number of Margolus rules, excluding birth from all cells being empty.
- ... is the smallest known non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into the century sequence in Life. (xp0_llv0tln)
- ... is the edge length of a D4_+4 or D8_4 Catagolue soup.
≈32.51
- ... is the inverse frequency of the ship in a C1 Catagolue soup. Note that this is highly dependent on soup size, as most are created by Herschels extending beyond the initial area.
33
- ... is the lifespan of butterfly.
- ... is the period of Jason's p33.
- ... is the population of rattlesnake and dinner table, the smallest period-11 and period-12 oscillators.
- ... is the smallest period that's a multiple of 3 where a c/3 spaceship is not known.
- ... is the smallest "large still life" size that appears in #catagolue on Discord.
- ... is the smallest number (other than 1, 2, and 3) that doesn't appear in jslife's wicks folder.
- ... is the conduit with the smallest recovery time on LifeWiki (RF28B).
- ... is the number of gliders required to synthesize the weekender.
- ... is the number of hexaplets that evolve into a single beehive.
- ... is the number of 4-cell patterns with no irrelevant cells (78) that don't die out.
See also:
- Block (xs4_33)
34
- ... has no known non-trivial oscillators with that period, but trivial ones are known.
- ... is the population of Merzenich's p64, the smallest known p64 oscillator.
- ... is the population of the smallest quad pseudo still life.
- ... is the maximum number of bits for which all strict still lifes have been enumerated.
- ... is the number of hexaplets that evolve into a single loaf.
35
- ... is the number of hexominoes.
- ... is the period of the p35 honey farm hassler and 50P35.
- ... was the number of gliders required for universal construction before being reduced to 32 and then 17.
- ... is the population of four eaters hassling lumps of muck, the smallest known p52 oscillator.
- ... is the number of 5-cell patterns that evolve into a single block, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
- ... is the number of 6-cell patterns that evolve into a single toad, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
36
- ... is the period of several shuttles and hasslers, including several with traffic lights, one with a LoM, five honey farm hasslers, and the p36 shuttle.
- ... is the minimum population of Jason's p22 and Gabriel's p138.
- ... is the minimum population of weekender, the smallest 2c/7 orthogonal spaceship.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a pond in Life. (xp0_llv0vlt)
- ... is the base-2 logarithm of the period of the 0E0P metacell.
- ... is the repeat time of the three quarters traffic light catalyst.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in an 8×8 box.
37
- ... is the period of Beluchenko's p37 and Beluchenko's other p37, but no other known oscillators.
- ... is the minimum population of 37P4H1V0, the smallest c/4 orthogonal spaceship.
38
- ... is the period of 44P38.
- ... is the largest even period for which no true-period gun is known.
- ... is the maximum period that the two pond and two block reaction could create, if any examples were known.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into exactly four blinkers (but not the traffic light) in Life. (xp0_llv0vlv)
- ... is the number of hexaplets that evolve into a traffic light.
39
- ... is the period of the p39 pi-heptomino hassler.
- ... is the number of 18-cell period-3 oscillators.
- ... is the minimum population of the Schick engine.
- ... is the final population of the I-heptomino.
- ... is the mimimum 1×N bounding box needed for infinite growth.
- ... is the period of the two-glider octomino on an 11×11 torus, but shifted.
- ... is the number of pentaplets (out of 94) that die completely.
- ... is the highest number of consecutive zeroes that apgcode originally supported.
- ... is the highest composite number where a gun of that period is not known.
- ... is the most entries a POTY has had.
40
- ... is the period of Beluchenko's p40.
- ... is the number of cells forward the R-pentomino moves from its leading edge, excluding the forward escaping gliders.
- ... is the final population of the 1 by 8 rectangle in Life.
- ... is the maximum population of the pentadecathlon.
- ... is the maximum population of the interchange sequence.
- ... is the maximum bounding box side length that apgcode originally supported.
41
- ... is the highest period where no oscillators are known.
- ... is the generation that the B-heptomino releases its first natural glider.
- ... is the smallest known n where a 1 by n rectangle shows pulsars in its ash in Life.
- ... is the population of the canonical eater2-eater5 weld in the Syringe.
42
- ... is the population of Achim's p144.
- ... is the answer to Life — wait, that's a different Life.
43
- ... is the repeat time of the Snark, allowing oscillators of periods 43 and higher to be constructed.
- ... is the recovery time of B60 if the FNG is removed.
- ... is the number of possible symmetries of an oscillator, taking into account both in a single generation and across generations.
- ... is the number of birth transitions (or survival transitions) in INT knight-move neighborhood rules.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 9×9 box.
44
- ... is the period of the period-44 glider gun, based on the p44 pi-heptomino hassler.
- ... is the population of p35 honey farm hassler, the smallest known p35 oscillator.
- ... is the population of 44P38, the only known p38 oscillator excluding variants.
45
- ... is the period of the period-45 glider gun.
- ... is the lifespan of the Z-hexomino.
- ... is the population of p32 honey farm hassler and p56 B-heptomino shuttle, the smallest known p32 and p56 oscillators.
- ... is the denominator of 17c/45, the speed of the caterpillar.
- ... is the population (live cells only) of the smallest known Garden of Eden.
- ... is the number of hivenudger variants.
- ... is the size of the largest asymmetric still life in a Catagolue soup.
- ... is the number of 4-cell patterns with no irrelevant cells (78) that die out completely.
46
- ... is the number of 11-cell still lifes.
- ... is the period of the twin bees shuttle, found very early. Many guns using this oscillator are known.
- ... is the number of 14-bit p2 pseudo-oscillators.
- ... is the maximum lifespan of a 6-cell object that dies out completely (Z-hexomino parent).
47
- ... is the period of the p47 pre-pulsar shuttle and the highest prime period in the original DRH oscillators collection.
- ... is the mod of the AK-94 gun; it was named after the real-life gun AK-47, where 94 is twice 47.
- ... is the expansion factor of Sawtooth 201.
- ... is the recovery time of Jormungant's G-to-H.
- ... is in the username wwei47.
48
- ... is the period of several shuttles and hasslers.
- ... is the period of the tiny period-48 glider gun.
- ... is the population of the smallest phase of the pulsar.
- ... is the population of Merzenich's p31, p54 shuttle, and 49P88, the smallest known p31 and p54 oscillators and the smallest known non-LCM p88.
- ... is the final population of the two-glider octomino.
- ... is the number of generations it takes for the switch engine to show itself again.
- ... is the lifespan of the line of 8 cells.
- ... is the number of neighbors (excluding the cell itself) in a range-3 Moore neighborhood.
- ... is the recovery time of PF35W.
49
- ... is the step time of R49.
- ... is the period of p49 skewed pulsar hassler.
- ... is the repeat time of the periodic glider duplicator and the period of one gun that can be created using it.
50
- ... is the period of the p50 traffic jam and the period-50 glider gun.
- ... is the anniversary year that this collection was made for.
- ... is the height of the lifecompetes grid.
- ... is the number of entries per page that Catagolue gives you for period 2-9 oscillators.
51
- ... is the period of Beluchenko's p51.
- ... is the number of birth transitions (or survival transitions) in INT rules: 1+2+6+10+13+10+6+2+1.
- ... is the period of one gun that can be made from the periodic glider duplicator.
- ... is the recovery time of Fx77 if the FNG is removed.
52
- ... is the period of two very small oscillators: four eaters hassling lumps of muck and four molds hassling eight blocks.
- ... is the maximum methuselah category (52k) on Catagolue currently.
- ... is the population of the original and Spartan version of Snark.
- ... is the mod of the B-52 bomber, which gives it its name.
- ... is the final population of the E-heptomino.
- ... is the recovery time of BLx19R.
53
- ... has a few known oscillators with that period, but they all involve Snarks.
- ... is the largest period for which no true-period gun is known.
54
- ... is the period of the period-54 glider gun.
- ... is the period of the p54 shuttle, found very early.
- ... is the smallest period Snark loop that allows four gliders instead of eight.
- ... is in the name of Rule 54.
- ... is the recovery time of Conduit 1 if the FNG is removed.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 10×10 box.
55
- ... is the period of the period-55 glider gun.
- ... is the period of the p55 pre-pulsar hassler.
- ... is the final population of the pi-heptomino.
- ... is the number of distinct 12-cell pseudo still lifes.
- ... is the number of birth transitions (or survival transitions) in range-2 cross neighborhood rules.
- ... is the recovery time of BRx46B.
56
- ... is the period of p56 B-heptomino shuttle.
- ... is the population of the medium phase of the pulsar.
- ... is the population of 56P27, the smallest known p27 oscillator.
- ... is the population of the largest still life (cloverleaf interchange and one other) in the C1 Catagolue census.
- ... is the final population of the 1 by 25 rectangle in Life.
- ... is the minimum population of 56P6H1V0, the smallest c/6 orthogonal spaceship.
- ... is the smallest 1×N line that releases any gliders.
- ... is the maximum population of the honey farm sequence.
57
- ... is the period of the former smallest period-57 glider gun and related oscillator, which involves two R-pentominoes colliding and being sparked by huge p3 domino sparkers.
- ... is the recovery time of Lx65 and SW-2.
- ... is the number of distinct 10-cell quasi still lifes.
| The known distinct 10-cell quasi still lifes. (click above to open LifeViewer) |
58
- ... is the period of the p58 pre-pulsar shuttle.
- ... is the minimum population of spider and 58P5H1V1, the smallest c/5 orthogonal and diagonal spaceships.
- ... is the recovery time of L112.
- ... is the smallest positive integer N for which the "Category: Oscillators with N cells" does not currently exist on LifeWiki.
59
60
- ... is the period of a whole bunch of oscillators, most of which involve pentadecathlons and/or queen bee shuttles.
- ... is the mod of the Simkin glider gun, which uses two copies of B60.
- ... is the population of 60P312.
- ... is the maximum number of generations per second in LifeViewer with step size 1.
- ... is the recovery time of Fx153 and Lx84.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a loaf in Life.
61
- ... is the mod of a hypothetical sparked Z-hexomino (period 122), except no period-61 sparkers are known.
- ... is the reciprocal of the theoretical speed of a spaceship where two blocks and two traffic light predecessors plus two dot sparks shifted one cell in 61 generations minus the sparks.
- ... is the only period for which the Herschel loop introduced by David Buckingham in 1996 emits no gliders.
- ... is the recovery time of the BFx59H injector.
62
63
- ... is the lifespan of the stairstep hexomino.
- ... is the maximum population of the wing sequence.
- ... is in Paul Callahan's email address.
- ... is the recovery time of F117 and HFx58B.
64
- ... is the period of Merzenich's p64 and p64 thunderbird hassler.
- ... generations after a B-heptomino, another B-heptomino appears, which inspires R64 with this step time.
- ... is the minimum population of 64P2H1V0, the smallest period-2 c/2 spaceship.
- ... is the most zoomed-in scale in LifeViewer.
- ... is the maximum step size in LifeViewer.
- ... is the number of Margolus rules, including birth from all cells being empty.
- ... is the edge length of lifelib patterns.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in an 11×11 box.
65
- ... is the period of the p65 pre-pulsar shuttle.
- ... is the maximum population of the century sequence.
- ... is the time it takes for an R-pentomino descendant to reappear when sparked in a specific location (https://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=&p=8872#p8872)
- ... is the step time of Lx65.
66
- ... is the number of 19-cell period-3 oscillators.
- ... is the period of the p66 R-pentomino hassler, which consists of eight R-pentominoes hitting each other and being sparked by either p3 or p6 oscillators.
- ... is the population of gourmet, the smallest known p32 oscillator.
- ... is the population of the p196 pi-heptomino hassler.
- ... is the population of the canonical syringe.
- ... is the number of cells backward the R-pentomino moves from its initial trailing edge, excluding the backward escaping gliders.
- ... is the lifespan of the two-glider collision that creates a traffic light and glider.
- ... is the recovery time of HF95P.
67
- ... is the smallest prime number for which no multiple of that number (including itself) appears in David Raucci's new oscillator collection. Herschel tracks do exist, however.
- ... is the smallest positive integer N for which the "Category: Oscillators with period N" does not currently exist on LifeWiki.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a blockade in Life.
68
- ... is the population of statorless p5, 68P16, and 68P32.
69
- ... is the generation that the R-pentomino releases its first natural glider.
- ... is the population in all phases of sixty-nine, an oscillator named after this fact.
- ... is a common sequence of apgcodes' first two digits.
70
- ... is the period of 78P70.
- ... is the population of centinal, the smallest known p100 oscillator.
- ... is the maximum population of the U-turner sequence.
- ... is the recovery time of Lx73.
- ... is the recovery time of the Bandersnatch.
71
- ... is the number of 2-glider collisions.
- ... is the number of 5-cell patterns that evolve into a single beehive, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
72
- ... is the period two blockers hassling R-pentomino and p72 quasi-shuttle.
- ... is the population of the dense phase of the pulsar.
- ... is the smallest 1×N line that produces spark coils.
- ... is one of two yl_(number) apgcodes smaller than 100 that have appeared in asymmetric soups, the other being 96.
- ... is the maximum known megasized category on Catagolue (72h).
- ... is the final population of the two-glider mess.
- ... is the recovery time of SW1T43.
73
- ... is the step time of Lx73.
74
- ... is one of the overclock periods of the syringe.
- ... is the period of Raucci's p74.
- ... is the smallest even period for which a c/2 puffer is possible but not known.
75
- ... is one of the overclock periods of the syringe.
- ... is the period of 6 bits.
- ... is the number of 6-cell patterns that evolve into a pi-heptomino, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
76
- ... is the period of p76 pi-heptomino hassler.
- ... is the lifespan of the procrastinator in its original form in Lifeline Volume 4.
- ... is the width of a line puffer that comes with Golly.
- ... is the population of 76P8.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 12×12 box.
77
78
- ... is the repeat time of the syringe, excluding overclocking.
- ... is the minimum population of any known stable or periodic object that is endemic to Life, consisting of a p196 pi-heptomino hassler and a pentadecathlon.
- ... is the number of 2-glider collisions in rules containing B2n but otherwise identical to Life.
- ... is the number of 15-bit p2 pseudo-oscillators.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a honey farm in Life.
- ... is the number of 4-cell patterns with no irrelevant cells.
79
- ... is the denominator of the waterbear's speed: (23,5)c/79.
- ... is the height of Sir Robin.
80
- ... is the number of neighbors (excluding the cell itself) in a range-4 Moore neighborhood.
82
- ... is the true period of the p41 wick stabilized with glider guns.
- ... is the population of p76 pi-heptomino hassler, the smallest known p76 oscillator.
- ... is the minimum gun period that allows the common beehive crystal to form.
83
- ... is the population of the p25 pre-pulsar shuttle.
- ... is the number of periods in the original DRH oscillator collection.
- ... is the minimum population of lobster, the smallest c/7 diagonal spaceship.
- ... is in the username of 83gv.
- ... is in the username of 83bismuth38.
- ... is the edge length of a solid 83×83 grid of on cells, which produces four unixes.
- ... is the height of the scholar.
- ... is the number of hexaplets with any form of symmetry.
84
- ... is the period of 52P84 and two oscillators found by David Raucci.
- ... is the population of p47 pre-pulsar shuttle, Raucci's p74, and 84P87, the smallest known p47, p74, and p87 oscillators.
- ... is the step time of Lx84.
85
- ... is the recovery time of the G4 receiver.
86
- ... is the number of transitions for birth and survival combined in INT knight-move neighborhood rules.
- ... is the number of characters needed to encode a rule in a MAP string for the range-1 Moore neighborhood.
87
88
- ... is the period of 49P88 and the period-88 glider gun.
- ... is the period of one of the oscillators (queen bee turn) that comes with Golly.
- ... is the minimum number of cells that need to be specified for the smallest known Garden of Eden.
90
- ... is the period of a whole bunch of oscillators, most of which involve pentadecathlons and/or queen bee shuttles.
- ... is the number of 21-bit p3 pseudo-oscillators.
- ... is the recovery time of Lx200.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 13×13 box.
- ... is the smallest non-negative integer that, when written in Dean Hickerson's Life Digits font, evolves into a single glider in Life.
92
- ... is the period of several twin bees shuttles interactions and a traffic light hassler.
- ... is the population of Jason's p156.
- ... is the recovery time of Callahan G-to-H and Fx176.
94
- ... is the period of AK-94.
- ... is the number of pentaplets.
- ... is the lifespan of the longest two-glider collision that completely dies out.
95
- ... is the step time of conduit HF95P.
96
- ... is the period of the p96 Hans Leo hassler, which has eight different cell periods (1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 48, 96).
- ... is the denominator of the switch engine speed, unsimplified (12c/96).
- ... is one of two yl_(number) apgcodes smaller than 100 that have appeared in asymmetric soups, the other being 72.
- ... is the period of the bomber in HighLife.
≈96.49
- ... is the average number of blinkers for each non-blinker oscillator.
98
- ... is the period of the R49 loop with two R-pentominoes.
- ... is the mod of the p196 pi-heptomino hassler.
- ... is the reciprocal of an elementary spaceship speed in HighLife.
- ... is the number of 16-cell period-2 oscillators.
- ... is the recovery time of Bx106.
[100,317)
100
- ... is the period of centinal and one particular honey farm hassler.
- ... is the recovery time of L122.
- ... is the width of the lifecompetes grid.
- ... is the final population of the smallest 1xn rectangle that produces escaping gliders.
- ... is the number of most common objects in Catagolue's statistics page.
101
- ... is the name of an oscillator: 101
102
- ... is the number of isotropic transitions: 51 birth, 51 survival.
- ... is the minimum population of the p44 pi-heptomino hassler.
≈102.86
- ... is the inverse frequency of the tub in a Catagolue soup.
103
- ... is the lifespan of the century.
104
- ... is the period of the B-52 bomber.
- ... is the minimum population of the smallest known period-177 oscillator.
- ... is the population of 104P9.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 14×14 box.
≈105.75
- ... is the inverse frequency of the pond in a Catagolue soup.
106
- ... is the lifespan of the block and glider.
- ... is the minimum period required for the rectifier to work.
- ... is the step time of conduit Bx106.
- ... is the mod of a 13-cell natural glider gun in Pedestrian Life.
107
108
- ... is the number of heptominoes.
107
- ... is the number of 6-cell patterns that evolve into a single glider, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
110
- ... is the number of 13-cell pseudo still lifes.
- ... is a famous 1D Wolfram rule: Rule 110
- ... is the number of 16-bit pseudo still lifes.
- ... is the number of combined birth and survival conditions for a range-2 cross INT rule.
111
- ... is the height of the current optimal 678P7 sparker.
112
- ... is the minimum population of Beluchenko's p51.
- ... is the step time of conduit L112.
113
116
- ... is the final population of the R-pentomino.
- ... is the lifespan of the original die hard in HighLife.
- ... is the step time of conduit F116.
- ... is the recovery time of BF20H, F166, and the Herschel transmitter.
117
- ... is the period of the period-117 glider gun.
- ... is the step time of conduit F117.
- ... is the recovery time of the Herschel receiver.
118
- ... is the number of 6-cell patterns that evolve into blockades, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
119
- ... is the step time of conduit Fx119.
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 15×15 box.
120
- ... is the period of several oscillators, many of which are period-multiplied, LCMs, or shuttles, but also includes a pi-heptomino hassler.
- ... is the period of the Simkin glider gun.
- ... is the highest period oscillator to appear naturally in an asymmetric soup.
- ... is in the name of NW31T120.
- ... is the recovery time of BNE14T30 when preceeded by BRx46B.
- ... is the period of an interchange hassler in HoneyLife.
- ... is the population of one of the period-7 sparkers (120P7).
- ... is the number of neighbors (excluding the cell itself) in a range-5 Moore neighborhood.
121
- ... is the number of 12-cell still lifes.
- ... is the expansion factor of sawtooth 177 and sawtooth 181.
- ... is the population of 121P7, a sparker.
122
- ... is the minimum population of David Hilbert.
- ... is the step time of conduit L122.
123
- ... is the name of an oscillator, excluding hyphens: 1-2-3
- ... is the generation number where the B-heptomino initially reaches its farthest forward point.
- ... is the mod of the symmetric p246 oscillator based on the period-246 glider gun.
- ... is the number of 6-cell patterns that evolve into a single pond, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
124
- ... is the period of the p124 lumps of muck hassler.
- ... is the final population of gliders by the dozen.
- ... is the minimum population of Beluchenko's p37 and p130 shuttle.
125
- ... is the step time of conduit Bx125.
126
- ... is the period of a particular pi-heptomino hassler and associated glider gun (gun_126).
127
- ... is the RNG length in Dean Hickerson's p15240 PRNG.
- ... is the number of 6-cell patterns that evolve into honey farms, as recorded in Lifeline Volume 4.
128
- ... is the lifespan of the Herschel.
- ... is the period of a pi-heptomino hassler and wing shuttle.
- ... is the average number of cells filled in in a Catagolue soup.
130
- ... is the lifespan of the original die hard.
- ... is the period of p130 shuttle.
- ... is the recovery time of RF48H.
132
- ... is the maximum population of the two-glider octomino.
- ... is the period of 387P132 (a U-turner shuttle), one of the Hans Leo hasslers, and a period-tripled p44 pi-heptomino hassler.
- ... is the population of 132P7, a sparker.
133
- ... is the minimum period of a rectifier loop with only two gliders.
133
- ... is the maximum number of on cells for a still life that fits in a 16×16 box.
137
- ... is the height of the spaghetti monster.
138
- ... is the period of Gabriel's p138 and several twin bees shuttle (46×3) combinations.
139
- ... is the number of objects that acorn creates.
140
- ... is the number of objects that multum in parvo creates.
143
- ... is the period of the p143 Bandersnatch loop.
144
- ... is the period of Achim's p144 and its associated glider gun.
References
External links
- Fun Facts (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums