B-heptomino

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A particular seven-cell methuselah in Conway's Game of Life.

    "Perturbations of its reaction also reproduce it in different generations. This might be tamed someday to form glider guns or puffers, as the B-heptomino in Life has been."

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"Perturbations of its reaction also reproduce it in different generations. This might be tamed someday to form glider guns or puffers, as the B-heptomino in Life has been."

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