Non-trivial
A period-n oscillator is considered non-trivial if it contains at least one cell that oscillates at the full period -- that is, if it is not made up solely of separate oscillators with smaller periods, but includes a spark or other reaction that would not occur if all lower-period subpatterns were separated from each other.
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