SPACESHIP

Spaceship

In a cellular automaton, a finite pattern is called a spaceship if it reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position. The smallest such number of generations is called the period of the spaceship.

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spaceship

Noun

  1. A vehicle that flies through space.
  2. A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
  3. The operator <=> in the Perl programming language, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.


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space ship

Noun



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