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...Conway's Game of Life? It is a 2D cellular automata, where a cell is born if exactly 3 surrounding cells are alive, and a cell survives if 2 or 3 of the surrounding cells are still alive. I am actually a nerd myself, and I keep a copy of GOLLY (a CGoL simulator) on my flash drive. This could be a possible English name origin. [[User:TruePikachu|--TruePikachu]] 04:38, 11 May 2010 (UTC) (EDIT: forgot sig) | ...Conway's Game of Life? It is a 2D cellular automata, where a cell is born if exactly 3 surrounding cells are alive, and a cell survives if 2 or 3 of the surrounding cells are still alive. I am actually a nerd myself, and I keep a copy of GOLLY (a CGoL simulator) on my flash drive. This could be a possible English name origin. [[User:TruePikachu|--TruePikachu]] 04:38, 11 May 2010 (UTC) (EDIT: forgot sig) | ||
:Probably too obscure to be his name origin, to be honest. :/ --[[User:Zesty Cactus|<span style="color:#006400">'''Zesty'''</span>]][[User talk:Zesty Cactus|<span style="color:#3CB371">'''Cactus'''</span>]] 05:26, 11 May 2010 (UTC) | :Probably too obscure to be his name origin, to be honest. :/ --[[User:Zesty Cactus|<span style="color:#006400">'''Zesty'''</span>]][[User talk:Zesty Cactus|<span style="color:#3CB371">'''Cactus'''</span>]] 05:26, 11 May 2010 (UTC) | ||
::To normal people, all this technical stuff is 'too obscure'. However, once I saw his name, I immediately made the connection. | |||