Stream

A stream is a line of identical objects (usually spaceships), each of which is moving in a direction parallel to the line, generally on the same lane. In many uses the stream is periodic. For example, the new gun produces a period 46 glider stream. Here, the period of a moving stream is often defined as either the number of generations it takes for an arbitrary region to repeat. In this case, the period of the stream is always equal to the least common multiple of the gun that generates it and the period of the spaceships in the stream. The stream produced by a pseudo-random glider generator can have a very high period.

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gollark: Although ours is too, as it is confusingly funded via a weird combination of semi-subsidized loans and the government.
gollark: * paid-for-by-other-people
gollark: Anyway, the convention here is seemingly to live near university while going there and shove some of the cost onto student loans you're forced to pay back for 30 years, so commuting isn't a huge issue.
gollark: I could just be lying in a convoluted way.
gollark: I may want to do engineering of some form, which does not work well remotely.
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