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- #N Parabolic Sawtooth
- #O Dean Hickerson, drhickerson@ucdavis.edu 6/26/91
- #C Population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity;
- #C its graph as a function of time is a sawtooth with a
- #C parabolic envelope. The pattern works by repeating
- #C the following operation for each n>=0. A 4-glider
- #C salvo is sent southeast toward a block A, arriving in
- #C generation 20 n^2 + 144 n + a[n mod 3], where
- #C a[0]=a[2]=131 and a[1]=91. Block A is pushed 1 unit
- #C southeast and another block, B, is created upstream
- #C from A. Then, every 108 generations, 2 gliders hit B,
- #C pulling it 3 units northwest. Eventually B gets
- #C deleted by a glider, at generation
- #C 20 n^2 + 180 n + b[n mod 3], where b[0]=193,
- #C b[1]=223, and b[2]=227. Then another 4-glider salvo
- #C is sent toward A. The population is minimal around
- #C the time B is deleted. (The minimum appears to be
- #C 1208 in generations 180 n^2 + 540 n + 210 and
- #C 180 n^2 + 660n + 450.) The population is maximal
- #C around the time B is created: there are about n/30
- #C 2-glider salvos on their way toward B around
- #C generation t = 20 n^2 + 144 n, so the population is
- #C about n/3 ~ sqrt(t/180) at this time.
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