Notes

Chapter 3: The World of Simple Programs

Section 2: More Cellular Automata


[History of] numbering scheme

I introduced the numbering scheme used here in the 1983 paper where I first discussed one-dimensional cellular automata (see page 881). I termed two-color nearest-neighbor cellular automata "elementary" to reflect the idea that their rules are as simple as possible.



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From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]