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Branching spaceships have also been constructed for other speeds, such as c/3.
Branching spaceships have also been constructed for other speeds, such as c/3 orthogonal or even (2,1)c/6 knightwise.


==External links==
==External links==
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Revision as of 14:27, 3 February 2019

A branching spaceship is any extensible spaceship containing components that can be attached in multiple ways so that the result can contain arbitrarily many arms arranged like a binary tree. Here is an example of a period 2 c/2 branching spaceship, which also includes a wicktrailer.

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Branching spaceships have also been constructed for other speeds, such as c/3 orthogonal or even (2,1)c/6 knightwise.

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