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Conway's Life taken to absurdly cool!

2011-01-17 16:58:08.342037+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Wow! Phi and Pi calculators in Conway's Life. Via MarkV.

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#Comment Re: made: 2011-01-17 18:51:15.476095+00 by: mvandewettering

What's really amazing is that you can run Life patterns using Golly for such absurdly high numbers of cycles to make this possible. The Pi calculator produces its first digit only after running for 1E10 generations, which is a staggering number of cycles. Hashlife is indeed a very cool algorithm.