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.

Century
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Pattern type Methuselah
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

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.

A century eater
RLE: here
Century eater 2
RLE: here
gollark: > as bad as it is to say, most of the deaths are people that are only alive from medicine artificially inflating life spans well beyond the designed parameters... is wanting to live longer a bad thing now? There are no "designed parameters" with humans, what with us being weird evolved systems, only "mostly works" ones, and we've been continually pushing those with stuff like, well, medicine.
gollark: The mortality rate of coronavirus is significantly higher than 1% or 2% or whatever if healthcare stuff gets overloaded. Which could happen, and I think is kind of in Italy.
gollark: The Earth isn't flat. It's nonexistent. r/noearthsociety
gollark: The flat moon, probably.
gollark: Compromise: a dinosaur earth with a donut earth encircling it, but there's a hemisphere (flat top, globe bottom) around them?

See also

References
  1. 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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