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== See also ==
== See also ==
* {{rl|Langton's ant}}
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* {{rl|Busy beaver}}


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Paterson's worms are a family of cellular automata devised in 1971 by Mike Paterson and John Horton Conway. The worms were described by Michael Beeler in June 1973, and presented in November of that year in Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American.

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