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

[islptng]

what about trinary

Try to make things in my Univ1234, designed to be ternaryNOT TRINARY. You will find it difficult even in this rule. XD
Also: The things dRELECTRON8 made drove me MAD >:-(

[tommyaweosme]

ternary means a number of things:

• balanced ternary

• normal ternary (aka trinary)

• weird ternary (digits 0 1 and 3)

• bijective ternary (digits 1 2 and 3)

but trinary just means normal ternary (also i wrote this entire post in one line. quote and check it out)

[tommyaweosme]

what about trinary

There're only a few rules that directly supports any N-nary. Making computers not using binary is hard.

the first computers were trinary, and they had huge advantages
link

[Banananananan]

Is there such a thing as an OMOSMOS? (Oscillator made of SMOSes)

[pifricted]

Is there such a thing as an OMOSMOS? (Oscillator made of SMOSes)

Is this a OMOSMOS?

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x = 10, y = 10, rule = B34enw5q6ae7c/S2ac3-cknq4-aenqt5akqy8
3b3o$4bo2$o$2o7bo$o7b2o$9bo2$5bo$4b3o!

[Banananananan]

Is there such a thing as an OMOSMOS? (Oscillator made of SMOSes)

Is this a OMOSMOS?

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x = 10, y = 10, rule = B34enw5q6ae7c/S2ac3-cknq4-aenqt5akqy8
3b3o$4bo2$o$2o7bo$o7b2o$9bo2$5bo$4b3o!

Yes

[confocaloid]

Is there such a thing as an OMOSMOS? (Oscillator made of SMOSes)

Here is an OMOSMOS where the SMOSes go through a few full cycles before colliding, and in each SMOS the Ses go through a full cycle before colliding:

[...] EDIT3: The above rule also has an OMOSMOS, which is period 162:

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x = 17, y = 9, rule = B2cek3q4ey5a6k7c/S12ae3a4acnqtz5aeqy6cei7e8
2bo11bo$2o13b2o6$2o13b2o$2bo11bo!

[tommyaweosme]

it called a figure eight but it doesnt work in eightlife

[pifricted]

it called a figure eight but it doesnt work in eightlife

pulsar is a P3 oscillator but it is common in eightlife.And Pi evolves into it in eightlife

[Haycat2009]

Are there any rules that support an infinite tier of SMOS? For instance, having a SMOS, SMOSSMOS, SMOSSMOSSMOS, SMOSSMOSSMOSSMOS and beyond?

[confocaloid]

Are there any rules that support an infinite tier of SMOS? For instance, having a SMOS, SMOSSMOS, SMOSSMOSSMOS, SMOSSMOSSMOSSMOS and beyond?

Find (or most likely engineer) a cellular automaton, where it is possible to construct a zero-encoded-by-zero-population unit cell for the same cellular automaton, with the property that at some generation the unit cell entirely consists of a nonnegative integer number of currently-noninteracting gliders (regardless of the emulated cellstate).

Make a glider out of such unit cells, have a SMOS.
Make a glider out of unit cells made out of gliders made out of unit cells, have a SMOSMOS.
Make a unit cell out of those SMOSMOSes, make a glider out of those unit cells, have a SMOSMOSMOS.
Make a mistake somewhere, have a headache trying to locate the bug.

[d/dx]

is the puedo barverpole extensible in any way

who's to say there's not a 11507-long barberpole with period 2^13 - 17

actually now it's more like are there other psuedo barberpoles

[tommyaweosme]

Is soup (The randomised pattern) supposed to be a uncountable noun? For example, should I say "This haul has 1000 soup" or "This haul has 1000 soups?"

Even through soups are uncountable in reality, I think soups should be countable in CAs, since they're not liquids.

It is definitely possible to count soups, and the Catagolue does that (among other things):

The following census was compiled from 14 358 committed hauls…
…containing 10 405 772 957 objects…
…generated from 1 456 344 360 soups.

wait if you put all the catagolue soups next to eachother what would happen?

would it be a megasoup? whats broth? i have so many questions.

[confocaloid]

Why nobody understands notability?

[...] whats broth? i have so many questions.

[Banananananan]

Who is Baidu[Spider]?

[confocaloid]

Who is Baidu[Spider]?

search.php?keywords=baidu+spider
search.php?keywords=arachnid+spiders

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x = 27, y = 8, rule = B3/S23
2b2o5b2o5b2o5b2o$o3bo3bo2bo3bo2bo3bo3bo$o3bobob3o5b3obobo3bo$o5b2o2b3ob3o2b2o
5bo$2ob3o15b3ob2o$o25bo$bo3bo15bo3bo$2bo2bo15bo2bo!

[pifricted]

Who is Baidu[Spider]?

www.baidu.com (the entry of chinese internet.)

edit:Was it often come here?

edit2: New question: "2 still lives" or "2 still lifes"?

[unname4798]

Who is Baidu[Spider]?

www.baidu.com (the entry of chinese internet.)

edit:Was it often come here?

edit2: New question: "2 still lives" or "2 still lifes"?

Both.

[confocaloid]

A big fatal problem

Are there small fatal problems?

[unname4798]

A big fatal problem

Are there small fatal problems?

the fatal problems aren't small.
my 963th post!

[tommyaweosme]

put every searched 16x16 soup next to eachother and run it
what would happen?

[confocaloid]

put every searched 16x16 soup next to eachother and run it
what would happen?

Kaboom?

[WhiteHawk]

How many SKOPs in life are not actually the SKOP for the lowest maximum population for their period?

For example, while Pentadecathalon is the SKOP for minimum population at period 15, it is not the SKOP for smallest maximum population achieved by a p15 oscillator since Caterer on Fumarole peaks at 39 rather than 40.

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x = 55, y = 45, rule = B3/S23
6$10bobobo2bobobo15bo3bo2bobobo2$14bo2bo3bo15bo3bo2bo3bo2$10bobobo2bo
bobo15bobobo2bo3bo2$14bo5bo20bo2bo3bo2$10bobobo2bobo21bo2bobobo13$11b
2o2bo10bo14b4o$11bo2b2o5b3o3bo12b6o$12b5o3b5obo12b8o$18bo3bo15b2o6b2o
$21b2o16b8o$12b5o4b2o17b6o$11bo2b2o25b4o$11b2o2bo!

EDIT: fun thing is that Pentadecathalon is actually the maximum population SKOP in Eightlife since the inhibitory sparks prevent eight cells from being born, having max population 32

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x = 39, y = 29, rule = B3/S238
obobo2bobobo15bobobo2bobobo2$4bo2bo3bo19bo6bo2$obobo2bobobo15bobobo2b
obobo2$4bo5bo20bo2bo2$obobo2bobo17bobobo2bobobo13$b2o2bo10bo14b4o$bo2b
2o5b3o3bo12b6o$2b5o3b5obo12b2o4b2o$8bo3bo15b2o6b2o$11b2o16b2o4b2o$2b5o
4b2o17b6o$bo2b2o25b4o$b2o2bo!

[confocaloid]

"Less" again? Or "greater"? Seems like this was already discussed elsewhere --

How many SKOPs in life have minimum populations less than their period? Max population?

How many oscillator periods have SKOPs with minimum population less than or equal to their period? Maximum?

Infinitely many, to both questions. High-period glider loop oscillators that are SKOPs have bounded population and unbounded period.

Whoops. Meant greater than.

[WhiteHawk]

"Less" again? Or "greater"? Seems like this was already discussed elsewhere --

Sorry. Asked the wrong question here - corrected.