Century
Century is a hexomino. It is a common methuselah that evolves into three blocks and a blinker after 103 generations. It produces a temporary toad at generation 59 which is destroyed at generation 79.
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| Pattern type | Methuselah | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 6 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 4×3 | ||||||
| MCPS | 6 | ||||||
| Lifespan | 103 generations | ||||||
| Final population | 15 | ||||||
| L/I | 17.2 | ||||||
| F/I | 2.5 | ||||||
| F/L | 0.146 | ||||||
| L/MCPS | 17.2 | ||||||
| Discovered by | Unknown | ||||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||
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David Buckingham built a period-246 glider gun using a century as the engine in June 1996.
It is a parent of the bookend.
Century eater
Century can be eaten by a configuration of three eater 1s surrounding a beehive, as shown below. A much smaller century eater was found by Ivan Fomichev in 2013.[1] Both of them play a prominent role in the bistable switch.
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gollark: Possibly useful implications for farming and construction if they can expand the definition of tree enough.
gollark: Can they cut down all trees with herrings, or just the mightiest ones?
gollark: In space, nobody can hear you complain about bad aerodynamics.
gollark: *Technically*, you can, if you remove it from the head and disassemble it first.
gollark: If there was a *simple* way to make us heal better, it probably would be prevalent in people already. Or not work (in pre-technological humans) because of (now less significant) nutritional constraints or something, actually.
See also
References
- Ivan Fomichev (June 8, 2013). Re: What do you want out of (conway's) life this year? (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
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