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methuselah en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.
2. A small pattern that takes many generations to stabilize.
   • The first known methuselah was the r pentomino, but even longer lasting ones have been found by enumerating and testing small patterns. The following, called "rabbits," takes over 10000 generations to stabilize. 1996 December 16, Paul Callahan, “Need help in finding topic for research project”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
   • The pattern below seems to take about 30000 generations to stabilize. The initial population is 20. Is this methuselah a known one? 2008 June 29, Andrzej Megier, “Game of life methuselah?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
   • Is there somewhere a list of n-cell methuselah patterns in Conway's Life? (assuming some reasonable limits on the bounding box) 2003 February 24, Michael Hedera, “Methuselahs in Conway's Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

Forms

Hyponyms

pi-heptomino · switch engine · R-pentomino · B-heptomino · Herschel

Synonyms

Imperial

Translations (1)

bg Матусал (wine bottle of 6 litres)