Broken snake

	Broken snake
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Pattern type	Strict still life
Number of cells	10
Bounding box	7×3
Frequency class	19.8
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B/S23 – B35678/S012345678
Important rules	Conway Life, HighLife
# of rules	212 = 4096
Isotropic rules	B/S2ae3jn – B2ein34-qr5678/S012345678
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	4
Catagolue-generated RLE	brokensnake_synth.rle
Uploaded synthesis RLE	brokensnake_synth.rle
Pattern files
Plaintext	brokensnake.cells
RLE	brokensnake.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xs10_0drz32
Niemiec ID	10.9
Pentadecathlon ID	10.3

Broken snake (or carrier siamese snake) is a 10-cell still life that consists of an aircraft carrier and a snake attached together.

Commonness

Broken snake is the fifty-fourth most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than mirrored dock but more common than trans-hook and R-bee.^[1] It is also the sixty-sixth most common object on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue.^[2]