Cellular automata
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<blockquote>Note:Because a '''CA''' is a finite state machine it will always eventually repeat... but the state space is huge.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Note:Because a '''CA''' is a finite state machine it will always eventually repeat... but the state space is huge.</blockquote> | ||
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| + | ==Christopher Langton's Lambda == | ||
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| + | lambda = fraction of states that are quiescent<br /> | ||
| + | lambda = N - Nq/N<br /> | ||
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| + | e.g. for rule number 124 | ||
