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R‐Pentomino
In Mind Games. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 35–36 (2010)
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Day 17, R‐pentomino task of making ‐ some of one's very own microbes distinction between living and inanimate things another mathematical picture ‐ blurring the distinction, seeming alive collection of dots on a grid, growing, separating, giving birth and dying ‐ for the mathematical world peculiar dotty pictures ‐ using no equations, following a few rules picture, developing ‐ in discrete jumps or ‘generations’ what a molecule looks like after being left to ‘react’ ‐ for a couple of hundred ‘generations’ mysterious life‐form ‘R‐pentomino’ (and friends) ‐ discovered by mathematicians in 1970
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