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I was just following the nomenclature used by Carter Bays.

Carter Bays made a mistake in using such ridiculous terminology. Another mistake he made was calling the cuboctahedron, which is the dual of the rhombic dodecahedron, a hexadecahedron, when in fact it has 14 faces not 16, making it a ...

Andrew wrote: September 4th, 2025, 8:24 pm That file is for the desktop versions of Golly, not the mobile versions.

I thought macOS was a desktop operating system.

The "hexahedral" neighbourhood is misnamed. It is actually a rhombic dodecahedral neighbourhood. It would be more accurately called something like "dodecahedral" rather than "hexahedral".

Ironically, it's actually cubes that are hexahedra! So the other neighbourhoods are the real hexahedral ones.

Andrew wrote: February 8th, 2025, 5:50 pm Their simulators crash on my Mac, probably because they don't want to support OpenGL ES any more.

Why doesn't problems.html list any macOS problems then?