From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-14T09:40:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Cellular Automata (#134)

On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Alpha Chen wrote:

> On Aug 13, 3:12 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>
> wrote:
>> I believe your code is correct and mine makes the same mistake as
>> alpha.chen's code.
>
> Forgive me for being dense, but I can't seem to figure out what the
> mistake is. When I do it by hand, I get the same result as when I run
> the script:
>
> 145 = 10010001b
>
>   [0 0]1[0 0]
> [0 0]0 0 1[0 0]
>    1 1 0 0 1

For any rules with a 1 in the final bit position, the edges should  
basically be an infinite strand of on cells.  Remember, any cell  
that's not on is off, so you technically start with:

...00000000000000000000100000000000000000000...

All of those 000 neighborhoods turn cells on.

James Edward Gray II