what is the biggest perio

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what is the biggest perio

Post by 30x30PeriodOscilator » April 8th, 2014, 12:19 pm

So i would like to know what the 10x10 oscillator period is?

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Re: what is the biggest perio

Post by lukebradford » April 14th, 2014, 9:58 am

Are you looking for the largest known period of an oscillator that fits in a 10 by 10 bounding box?

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Post by danial500 » October 8th, 2014, 2:17 pm

Is it accurate to say that you are searching for the biggest known time of an oscillator that fits in a 10 by 10 bouncing box?

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Re: what is the biggest perio

Post by Kiran » January 9th, 2016, 2:09 am

Definitely less then 1267650600228229401496703205376.
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Re: what is the biggest perio

Post by calcyman » January 9th, 2016, 2:27 pm

Kiran wrote:Definitely less then 1267650600228229401496703205376.
If you require that it fits in a 10-by-10 box in all its phases, then yes.

Otherwise, I don't see why a small 10-by-10 methuselah couldn't expand, methuselah-like, into (say) a 20-state busy beaver Turing machine, run for an incredibly long amount of time, and self-destruct leaving only a couple of salvos of gliders which eventually collide and synthesise the 10-by-10 methuselah in its original location.
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