Dinner table

	Dinner table
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	33
Bounding box	13 × 13
Period	12 (mod: Unknown)
Heat	10.0
Volatility	Unknown \| Unknown
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Robert Wainwright
Year of discovery	1972
Pattern files
Plaintext	dinnertable.cells
RLE	dinnertable.rle

Dinner table is a period 12 oscillator. It was the first period 12 oscillator to be found, and was discovered by Robert Wainwright in 1972.^[1] In terms of its minimum of 33 cells, it is the smallest known non-trivial period 12 oscillator, although the trivial mold and long hook eating tub contains only 24 cells.^[2]

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