Census

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A census is a count of the number of different individual Life objects within one larger object, most often the final ash of a random soup experiment or a methuselah. This includes the number of blocks, blinkers, gliders, and other common objects, as well as any rarer larger still lifes, oscillators, spaceships or puffers. The use of the word census for this kind of Life enumeration is credited to Don Woods in 1971 in Lifeline Volume 2.

The final census of the R-pentomino includes eight blocks, six gliders, four beehives, four blinkers, one boat, one loaf, and one ship.

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