The Quest for Tetris

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Sherlock9

1:57 AM

@ASCII-only Would an exact version use something like Python's fractions or Haskell's Data.Ratio?

ASCII-only

@Sherlock9 I'd say it needs square roots at least probably

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Sherlock9

7:37 AM

Found the paper detailing the SmoothLife rule and it says that floating point numbers are sufficient: arxiv.org/pdf/1111.1567.pdf

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i cri everytim

9:58 AM

eenie meenie minie moe, which is the next answer to bounty

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El'endia Starman

2:06 PM

@icrieverytim Just keep working down the list. Well, Phi posted answer #4 and he already got bounty rep for #1 (which is probably a bug), so you could move on to answer #5, posted by Mego.

Or you could, y'know, award the bounty to my answer...

Anonymous

I certainly won't object to getting the next bounty :P

Anonymous

As long as the bounties get distributed evenly, the order doesn't matter much

Anonymous

Also, I've been thinking about compiling the answers into one big PDF, so that I can have something standalone to show my former professor as a WIP of the research paper.

Anonymous

There are a few potential problems, though:

Anonymous

1) SE content is licensed under CC-BY-SA. That probably won't be compatible with wherever we publish the research paper, so we'll all need to give explicit permission for it to be published under an incompatible license.

Anonymous

2:17 PM

2) We'll need to stick our real names on it.