Talk:(2,1)c/6
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Shouldn't the speed be c/3 (max(2,1)/6) in this case? --Wpolly (talk) 04:57, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- My answer would be no, because you can’t divide everything by two and get integers, so that would just confuse things. You could say it’s c/3 knightwise, but by the same reasoning, a glider would travel at c/2 diagonal. You could make a new notation by saying that a pattern moves at c/3 (2c/6 unsimplified) in one direction and c/6 in another, however, but that would make things a touch confusing. This is only my opinion, though! Moosey (talk) 17:17, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Why such a specific article?
What's the point of having an article for one specific combination of speed and direction, when there's no article on "knightwise" in general? Knightwise is just a redirect to Types of spaceships, and Knightship covers all sort of spaceships, not just those moving knightwise. (See also my suggestion at Talk:Knightship#Systematic nomenclature.) Micromegas (talk) 09:30, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- It's debatable -- probably not worth having an entry so long as just have one ship, and no guns, rakes, puffers etc. But I'm biased, of course.
- Even if we decide to keep it, it should not be called "c/6 knightwise", as the ship is clearly moving more than one cell per 6 ticks -- as Wpolly pointed out above. Depending on the metric used, it would be reasonable to say the ship is moving at speed c/3, or c/2, or even c/2.68328; but c/6 is clearly wrong. Apple Bottom (talk) 09:49, 9 March 2018 (UTC)