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Rule 250


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Rule 250 is one of the elementary cellular automaton rules introduced by Stephen Wolfram in 1983 (Wolfram 1983, 2002). It specifies the next color in a cell, depending on its color and its immediate neighbors. Its rule outcomes are encoded in the binary representation 250=11111010_2. This rule is illustrated above together with the evolution of a single black cell it produces after 15 steps (OEIS A071028; Wolfram 2002, p. 55).

For initial conditions of a single black cell, this rule produces identical evolution to rules 50, 58, 114, 122, 178, 186, and 242, which are precisely those with binary representation xx11x010_2.

Rule 250 is a generalized additive elementary cellular automata under the operation OR(c_(-1),c_1) (Wolfram 2002, p. 952), where c_(-1) is the value of the neighboring cell to the left and c_1 is the value of the neighboring cell to the right.


See also

Elementary Cellular Automaton, Rule 30, Rule 50, Rule 54, Rule 60, Rule 62, Rule 90, Rule 94, Rule 102, Rule 110, Rule 126, Rule 150, Rule 158, Rule 182, Rule 188, Rule 190, Rule 220

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Rule 250." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rule250.html

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