A086993 Number of generations needed to reach an oscillator, starting with a segment of n consecutive live cells and applying the LongLife 2D rule (see comment).

1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 11, 9, 10, 10, 13, 17, 19, 21, 33, 30, 22, 22, 64, 74, 25, 24, 83, 97, 40, 45, 215, 227, 223, 348, 128, 510, 51, 53, 115, 1429, 1581, 337, 4435, 425, 4791, 5564

Offset: 1

Author

Benoit Cloitre, Sep 22 2003

Keywords

• nonn
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Comments

LongLife rule: birth occurs if dead cell has 3,4 or 5 neighbors. Survival occurs if live cell has 5 neighbors. (Sequence computed using LifeLab for Macintosh.)

Links

• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Game of Life

Crossrefs

Cf. A086973 (oscillator period).