The Quest for Tetris

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Sherlock9

01:57

@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

07:37

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

09:58

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

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El'endia Starman

14:06

@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

14:17

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