Unique father problem
The unique father problem is the following question, posed by John Conway in 1972 in Lifeline Volume 6 with an associated $50 cash prize,[1] along with the grandfather problem:
- Is there a stable configuration whose only father is itself (with some fading junk some distance away not being counted)?
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The problem remains open as of April 2020.
Also see
gollark: <@!151391317740486657> I may or may not just manually decide if something counts as blasphemy or not.
gollark: Is it though? Is it really?
gollark: Alsot ools.
gollark: Oh, the pandora *sphere*.
gollark: You mean your cube of doom?
References
- Robert Wainwright (October 1972). "Lifeline Volume 6" p. 1.
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