b-heptomino
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A particular seven-cell methuselah in Conway's Game of Life.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Actually, the period 30 "queen bee" shuttle seems irreparable, as it contains several instances of the Ship neighborhood duriod its cycle. It's the period 46 b-heptomino shuttle that can be stabilized with clocks."
- "In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the next generation after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):"