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- From: fraserc@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Campbell Fraser)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory.cell-automata
- Subject: Re: Undecidability of configurations/progression
- Message-ID: <BxG9GE.4n4@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 13:00:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.210220.29731@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
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- In article <1992Nov8.210220.29731@hellgate.utah.edu>, tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) writes:
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- > There are some things which must be undecidable for cellular automata...
- > see if you agree!
- >
- ...
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- > 2) Whether a configuration is garden of eden (as demonstrated by previous
- > poster)
- >
- ...
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- Surely this is. If the 'world' has length x and height y then there are 2^(x.y)
- possible states. Try every one and if none lead to the alleged garden of eden
- then it is a garden of eden. If one does then make it the starting state and
- then the alleged garden is reached proving that it isn't.
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- Of course the problem is probably intractable.
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- Excuse me if this is wrong and naive but I only just peeked at this newsgroup
- and don't know a lot about CA.
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- Campbell
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- Campbell Fraser: fraserc@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk
- Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ
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