Wilma

Wilma is a methuselah with a lifespan of 39693 generations, discovered by Rob Liston on October 28, 2018, using a custom FPGA soup searcher.[1] It was briefly the longest-lived known methuselah to fit within a 20×20 bounding box, surpassing Fred which was discovered in 2010. In response to its discovery, Adam P. Goucher updated apgsearch to track methuselae,[2] and just three days later, 42100M was discovered by Dave Greene breaking the record once again.

Wilma
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Pattern type Methuselah
Number of cells 197
Bounding box 20×20
MCPS 201
Lifespan 39693 generations
Final population 3524
L/I 201.5
F/I 17.9
F/L 0.089
L/MCPS 197.5
Discovered by Rob Liston
Year of discovery 2018

The pattern is named after Wilma Flintstone, the wife of Fred Flintstone in the animated sitcom The Flintstones.

Stable pattern

The stable pattern that results from Wilma (excluding 72 escaping gliders) has 3164 cells and consists of 232 blinkers (including 21 traffic lights), 231 blocks, 134 beehives (including five honey farms), 50 loaves, 40 boats, nine ponds, nine ships, six tubs, three toads, two long boats, and one beacon.

gollark: Due to an integer overflow underflow.
gollark: My true age is -15026.06.
gollark: ++remind 9mo-8m make lyricly trust olive
gollark: You're just bad at reminding.
gollark: I trust myself, so by symmetry you trust me.

See also

References
  1. Rob Liston (October 28th, 2018). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  2. Adam P. Goucher (October 28, 2018). Re: apgsearch v4.0 (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
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