Pointless optimisation game: Revision history

31 May 2025

• curprev 09:1109:11, 31 May 2025 PK22 talk contribs m 3,426 bytes −1 Changed "in it's minimum phase" to "in its minimum phase".

30 May 2025

• curprev 19:5619:56, 30 May 2025 WhiteHawk talk contribs 3,427 bytes +22 No edit summary
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15 May 2025

• curprev 08:5408:54, 15 May 2025 Chris857 talk contribs m 3,405 bytes +13 Use the times template for bounding box sizes
• curprev 04:5204:52, 15 May 2025 Haycat2009 talk contribs m 3,392 bytes +10 No edit summary
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23 March 2024

• curprev 14:0114:01, 23 March 2024 Dvgrn talk contribs m 3,369 bytes 0 British English for consistency
• curprev 14:0014:00, 23 March 2024 Dvgrn talk contribs m 3,369 bytes +59 →History: the altered sentence was already leading up to two examples in the very next sentence, so it didn't quite seem to work to jump in ahead of those examples to mention an instance one of those same examples. Reworded a bit.

22 March 2024

• curprev 14:2514:25, 22 March 2024 Haycat2009 talk contribs m 3,310 bytes +53 →History: Add example

9 January 2024

• curprev 03:4603:46, 9 January 2024 Dvgrn talk contribs m 3,257 bytes +25 clarify the glider-synthesis comparison

6 January 2024

• curprev 14:4614:46, 6 January 2024 Dvgrn talk contribs m 3,232 bytes −13 Clarify the type of optimization, so it doesn't have to be "so-called"; also "more easy" -> "easier"
• curprev 06:3906:39, 6 January 2024 Haycat2009 talk contribs m 3,245 bytes +906 Example

5 January 2024

• curprev 18:2618:26, 5 January 2024 Dvgrn talk contribs 2,339 bytes −32 ... yeah, the Simkin glider gun example just isn't relevant -- it's the smallest-population p120 gun, sure, but it's also the smallest-bounding-box p120 gun. For an example to fit here we'd need a gun that had a record-small population for its period, _at the cost of_ a bigger bounding box. Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 13:3813:38, 5 January 2024 Haycat2009 talk contribs m 2,371 bytes +32 More well-known example. If you undo this, I will not re-add this. Tag: Reverted
• curprev 13:2813:28, 5 January 2024 Dvgrn talk contribs 2,339 bytes −129 mentioning population-optimized guns made a run-on sentence covering two unrelated topics, and the given examples didn't seem to be clear examples of guns with record-breaking small populations but non-record-breaking bounding box areas
• curprev 13:1613:16, 5 January 2024 Dvgrn talk contribs 2,468 bytes +27 There are a lot more places than just the U.S. that use non-British English... and the bounding diamond area is nowhere near as easy to calculate as the bounding box.
• curprev 13:0013:00, 5 January 2024 Haycat2009 talk contribs m 2,441 bytes +219 Bounding diamond and bounding box are equally hard to calculate, technically. But low pop guns are useful!
• curprev 12:4612:46, 5 January 2024 Dvgrn talk contribs 2,222 bytes +2,222 starting point for "Pointless Optimisation Game" glossary article, per confocaloid's suggestion at https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=173904#p173904