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Why eight yes/no answers can draw a fractal, make noise or compute: elementary cellular automata
Take a row of lit and dark squares and repeat one tiny rule to make the next row: look at a square and its two neighbours, then decide if it is lit. There are…
Computing
3 min read
27 Oct