Gotts dots
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| Gotts dots | |||||||
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| Pattern type | Miscellaneous | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 41 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 187 × 39 | ||||||
| Static symmetry | C1 | ||||||
| Discovered by | Bill Gosper | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 2006 | ||||||
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Gotts dots (or 41 dots[1]) is a 41-cell pattern that exhibits O(t ln(t)) growth. It was found by Bill Gosper in March 2006 and helped lead to the construction of the 26-cell quadratic growth pattern.[2]
Collisions within the pattern cause it to sprout its nth switch engine at generation t ~ 224n-6. The first switch engine appears roughly 220,000 generations in, and the second 3.6 trillion.
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Generation 5,000,000,000 of Gotts dots
References
- ↑ Jason Summers' jslife oversize pattern collection. Retrieved on May 19, 2009.
- ↑ Quadratic Population Growth, Revisited at Game of Life News. Posted by Dave Greene on May 12, 2006.
External links
- Gotts dots at the Life Lexicon