Almost knightship
Almost knightship is a partial spaceship discovered by Eugene Langvagen on March 23, 2004.[citation needed] It would have been an elementary knightship if two cells at the back end were not incorrect after the 6th generation, which provided evidence that small elementary knightships may exist within a considerably small bounding box.
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Pattern type | Miscellaneous | ||
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Number of cells | 67 | ||
Bounding box | 13×19 | ||
Discovered by | Eugene Langvagen | ||
Year of discovery | 2004 | ||
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Several more small almost knightships were found by Tomas Rokicki in February 2018, using a SAT solver,[1] of velocities (2,1)c/6 and (2,1)c/7. Further searching by Adam P. Goucher based on these partials led to the finding of a true elementary knightship, Sir Robin.
Image gallery
![]() generation 0 (left) and generation 6 (right) show that the pattern is different by only two cells |
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gollark: Oh, and in potatOS Lua you can *also* do: `(1 / " ") * string`
gollark: So you can do roughly the same things fairly easily.
gollark: Lua, sadly, doesn't have string split built in, but does have a ton of weird regexy string manipulation functions builtin.
gollark: In PotatOS Lua you can actually do `string / " "`.
See also
References
- Tomas Rokicki (February 14, 2018). Four new almost-knightships CGOL (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
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