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Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 26th, 2024, 9:41 pm
by Bullet51
b-engine wrote: March 25th, 2024, 9:38 am A: every programmer
Q: Who made Symbiosis?
A: Symbiosis is the most rediscovered rule, like Cyclic is the most rediscovered pattern.
Q: Give an example of a nice pattern.

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 26th, 2024, 9:49 pm
by hotcrystal0
Bullet51 wrote: March 26th, 2024, 9:41 pm
Q: Give an example of a nice pattern.
A: Here:

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x = 5, y = 9, rule = B3/S23
bo2bo$o$o3bo$4o2$4o$o3bo$o$bo2bo!
Q: What are the known 2c/7o spaceships? (give RLE)

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 27th, 2024, 4:39 am
by haaaaaands
a: none
q: what is the largest orthogonal spaceship?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 27th, 2024, 7:54 am
by b-engine
haaaaaands wrote: March 27th, 2024, 4:39 am q: what is the largest orthogonal spaceship?
A: copperhead
Q: Smallest known HBK

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 27th, 2024, 8:31 am
by H. H. P. M. P. Cole
b-engine wrote: March 27th, 2024, 7:54 am A: copperhead
Q: Smallest known HBK
A: If you mean half-block knightship, then no. There are no half-block knightships as half-block is ambiguous.
Q: who made Factorio and what is its rulestring (please no Hensel notation)

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 27th, 2024, 8:58 am
by b-engine
H. H. P. M. P. Cole wrote: March 27th, 2024, 8:31 am Q: who made Factorio and what is its rulestring (please no Hensel notation)
A: I made it and it's rulestring is R18023843298,C34927,S42019785,B3759120748971,NW1287409379290187957365873267123456789279217289421962394628632856811101010909173091783945709178910^18979750785414072075719789759759081751075105170159854.
Q: Who made the first oscillator

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 27th, 2024, 10:34 am
by haaaaaands
a: jebediah kerman
q: what is the largest still life known in b2-a/s12? (rle plz)

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 28th, 2024, 6:13 am
by b-engine
haaaaaands wrote: March 27th, 2024, 10:34 am q: what is the largest still life known in b2-a/s12? (rle plz)
A:

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2o!
Q: Largest known caterpillar (provide RLE)

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 28th, 2024, 5:46 pm
by d/dx
b-engine wrote: March 28th, 2024, 6:13 am
Q: Largest known caterpillar (provide RLE)
A: a little faster than a standard one but... still

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x = 5, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
o2bo$4bo$o3bo$b4o!

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 29th, 2024, 10:57 am
by haaaaaands
d/dx wrote: March 28th, 2024, 5:46 pm
b-engine wrote: March 28th, 2024, 6:13 am
Q: Largest known caterpillar (provide RLE)
A: a little faster than a standard one but... still

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x = 5, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
o2bo$4bo$o3bo$b4o!
question?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 31st, 2024, 3:11 pm
by tommyaweosme
q:
haaaaaands wrote: March 27th, 2024, 4:39 am what is the largest
b-engine wrote: March 3rd, 2024, 8:42 am king
haaaaaands wrote: March 25th, 2024, 8:38 am butt
Edit by Sokwe: this post violates the rules of the thread. All questions and answers should related to cellular automata.

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: March 31st, 2024, 6:16 pm
by hotcrystal0
tommyaweosme wrote: March 31st, 2024, 3:11 pm q:
haaaaaands wrote: March 27th, 2024, 4:39 am what is the largest
b-engine wrote: March 3rd, 2024, 8:42 am king
haaaaaands wrote: March 25th, 2024, 8:38 am butt
A: This one:

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x = 39, y = 27, rule = B3/S23
bo21bo$o3b3o11b3o3bo$bob5o3b3o3b5obo$5bo13bo$5b2o4bobo4b2o$5b2o5bo5b2o
2$10b2o$5b2obo4bob2o$5bo10bo$6b2o6b2o$3b3o2b6o2b3o$3bo2bo8bo2bo$4b2o10b
2o3$3b2o$3bo6b2o$2bo9bo$2bo10bo$2bo11bo3b3ob2obo3b2o2b2o2b2o$2bo4bo7b
o2bobobobobob2o2bobobobo$2bo4bo7bo2b3obobobo2b2o2b2o2b2o$3bo3bo7bo18b
o$3b2ob3o6bo16b2o$5b2o2b2o3bo$11b4o!
Q: How do you complete this oscillator?

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x = 33, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
17b2o$17bobo7b2o$17bob2o6b2o$3bo14b2o$b3o14bo$o$b3o14bo$3bo14b2o$17bo
b2o$17bobo$17b2o$31b2o$31b2o!

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: April 1st, 2024, 4:19 am
by b-engine
hotcrystal0 wrote: March 31st, 2024, 6:16 pm Q: How do you complete this oscillator?

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x = 33, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
17b2o$17bobo7b2o$17bob2o6b2o$3bo14b2o$b3o14bo$o$b3o14bo$3bo14b2o$17bo
b2o$17bobo$17b2o$31b2o$31b2o!
Very easy:

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x = 21, y = 11, rule = B3/S23
17b2o$17bobo$17bob2o$3bo14b2o$b3o14bo$o$b3o14bo$3bo14b2o$17bob2o$17bo
bo$17b2o!
Q: How to stabilize queen bee?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: April 1st, 2024, 1:01 pm
by d/dx
b-engine wrote: April 1st, 2024, 4:19 am Q: How to stabilize queen bee?
A: You don't. Definitely not with a Gosper glider gun or anything. Don't look that up.

Q: Why aren't there more switch engines?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: April 2nd, 2024, 4:30 am
by b-engine
d/dx wrote: April 1st, 2024, 1:01 pm Q: Why aren't there more switch engines?
A: They're actually very common. They just hit each other then degrades.
Q: Why B is very common?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: April 2nd, 2024, 12:09 pm
by haaaaaands
a: b: is less common than c:
(not my fault that this pun is too obvious)
q: where do deleted golly scripts go?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: April 2nd, 2024, 11:16 pm
by confocaloid
haaaaaands wrote: April 2nd, 2024, 12:09 pm q: where do deleted golly scripts go?
A: deleted Golly scripts go to the unique point at infinity, where all gliders escaping in all directions collide to construct the ICT (Inverse Caber Tosser) that, once fully constructed, will expand at speed of light in all directions back from the point at infinity.

Q: What is the first known prime-period oscillator?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: April 3rd, 2024, 6:46 am
by unname4798
confocaloid wrote: April 2nd, 2024, 11:16 pm
haaaaaands wrote: April 2nd, 2024, 12:09 pm q: where do deleted golly scripts go?
A: deleted Golly scripts go to the unique point at infinity, where all gliders escaping in all directions collide to construct the ICT (Inverse Caber Tosser) that, once fully constructed, will expand at speed of light in all directions back from the point at infinity.

Q: What is the first known prime-period oscillator?
A: $rats
Q: What is the first known power-of-2 period (except 1 and 2)

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: April 3rd, 2024, 6:49 am
by b-engine
unname4798 wrote: April 3rd, 2024, 6:46 am Q: What is the first known power-of-2 period (except 1 and 2)
A: Goban
Q: First known reflector

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: April 9th, 2024, 12:30 am
by b-engine
Bump :!:

A: Snark
Q: Fastest CA computer

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: May 1st, 2024, 1:14 pm
by Value1
A: The B-heptomino
Q: What was the last period found in Life to make it omniperiodic?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: May 1st, 2024, 1:20 pm
by unname4798
Value1 wrote: May 1st, 2024, 1:14 pm A: The B-heptomino
Q: What was the last period found in Life to make it omniperiodic?
A: p19
Q: What is the smallest caterpillar?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: May 1st, 2024, 8:07 pm
by b-engine
unname4798 wrote: May 1st, 2024, 1:20 pm Q: What is the smallest caterpillar?
A: c/240 caterpillar.mc
Q: What's the first Life simulation program?

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: May 1st, 2024, 9:16 pm
by hotcrystal0
A: Mirek's Cellebration
Q: What is the reflector with the shortest repeat time? (give RLE)

Re: Wrong answers only thread

Posted: May 1st, 2024, 9:28 pm
by b-engine
hotcrystal0 wrote: May 1st, 2024, 9:16 pm Q: What is the reflector with the shortest repeat time? (give RLE)
A:

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bo$bbo$3o!
Q: What's the most complex pattern in Life?