dumb questions that will probably never get answered (at least here)

[hotdogPi]

[...] A name is most certainly not "needed" for this rule, systematic moor neighborhood is enough. [...]

Q: what do you mean by "systematic moor neighborhood" in this context?

systematic = typical INT rulestring rather than a name
moor = obvious typo or autocorrect for Moore

[WhiteHawk]

[...] A name is most certainly not "needed" for this rule, systematic moor neighborhood is enough. [...]

Q: what do you mean by "systematic moor neighborhood" in this context?

typo and brain fart

EDIT:

A "typical rulestring" (such as 'B37e8/S234c7e8') serves as a definition of the CA rules.
A "rulestring" is a way to define the rules that must be followed by every cell in the universe.

That's the word i was looking for.

[confocaloid]

^^ For what it's worth, here is my current understanding of the matter:

A "typical rulestring" (such as 'B37e8/S234c7e8') serves as a definition of the CA rules.
A "rulestring" is a way to define the rules that must be followed by every cell in the universe.

A neighbourhood (such as the Moore neighbourhood) answers the question "Which cells are neighbours of a given cell?"
For example, the Moore neighbourhood of the cell at origin (coordinates x=0, y=0) includes the 8 cells with coordinates (0;-1), (1;-1), (1;0), (1;1), (0;1), (-1;1), (-1;0), (-1;-1). The Moore neighbourhood of any other cell can be found by translation.

In particular, 'B37e8/S234c7e8' is not a neighbourhood (and it doesn't explicitly mention any neighbourhood either).
However, by convention, "rulestrings" in the same format are used only for defining two-state isotropic CA with Moore neighbourhood.
There is a similar "rulestring" notation for defining two-state isotropic CA with honeycomb neighbourhood on the hexagonal tiling.

In other words, it's incorrect to refer to the "rulestring" as either "moore neighborhood title" or "systematic moore neighborhood".
Neighbourhood of a cell is a different concept.

[...] A name is most certainly not "needed" for this rule, systematic moor neighborhood is enough. [...]

Q: what do you mean by "systematic moor neighborhood" in this context?

systematic = typical INT rulestring rather than a name
moor = obvious typo or autocorrect for Moore

[...] A name is most certainly not "needed" for this rule, systematic moor neighborhood is enough. [...]

Q: what do you mean by "systematic moor neighborhood" in this context?

typo and brain fart

[WhiteHawk]

Can this really inconvenient c/2 partial be completed in regular B3/S23?

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x = 5, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
o3bo$2bo$bobo$bobo!