Mathematician

	Mathematician
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Oscillator type	Billiard table
Number of cells	35
Bounding box	9×11
Period	5
Mod	5
Heat	3.2
Volatility	0.20
Strict volatility	0.20
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	1972
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B38/S0235678
Important rules	Conway Life
# of rules	26 = 64
Isotropic rules	B3ijnry/S2-n3-ackn – B2n34ejkrtwy5ciknq6-i7c8/S01c234-itz5678
Pattern files
Plaintext	mathematician.cells
RLE	mathematician.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xp5_6s1v071c88gz118f0e8311
Pentadecathlon ID	35P5.4

The mathematician is a period-5 oscillator that was found in 1972 by David Buckingham.[1] A variant of it first appeared semi-naturally in April 2016.[2]

References

Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
Dongook Lee (April 6, 2016). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums

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