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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	14
Bounding box	7 × 7
Period	2 (mod: Unknown)
Heat	15
Volatility	0.68 \| 0.68
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	1977
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B3678/S2345678
# of rules	28 = 256
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	27†
Uploaded synthesis RLE	whynot_synth.rle
	†Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files
Plaintext	whynot.cells
RLE	whynot.rle

Revision as of 16:28, 16 May 2016

Why not is a period 2 oscillator that was found by David Buckingham in July 1977. It is extremely similar to by flops.

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	'''Why not''' is a [[period]] [[:Category:Oscillators with period 2\|2]] [[oscillator]] that was found by [[:Category:Patterns found by David Buckingham\|David Buckingham]] in July [[:Category:Patterns found in 1977\|1977]]. It is extremely similar to [[by flops]].		'''Why not''' is a [[period]] [[:Category:Oscillators with period 2\|2]] [[oscillator]] that was found by [[:Category:Patterns found by David Buckingham\|David Buckingham]] in July [[:Category:Patterns found in 1977\|1977]]. It is extremely similar to [[by flops]].