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Generating Sequences of Primes in Conway's Game of Life (nathanieljohnston.com)
2 points by kushti on April 12, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I don't understand how this can keep all the information needed to keep track of what number it is on, in an area it has access to, especially seeing as it has a constant time of 120 generations between each number.

If it goes for unbounded integers, then, because the distribution of primes isn't cyclic, it has to have infinitely many states it can be in, right?

Does the machine grow over time?




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