Methuselah

Definitions

1. Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
   broadly
2. A large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.
3. The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.
4. Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”).
   alt-of, alternative
5. A small pattern that takes many generations to stabilize.
6. A planet in the PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; a circumbinary planet, officially named PSR B1620-26 b, orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”).

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Examples

“And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:”

“The first known methuselah was the r pentomino, but even longer lasting ones have⟳ been found by enumerating and testing small patterns. The following, called "rabbits," takes over 10000 generations to stabilize.”

“Is there somewhere a list of n-cell methuselah patterns in Conway's Life? (assuming some reasonable limits on the bounding box)”

“The pattern below seems to take⟳ about 30000 generations to stabilize. The initial population is 20. Is this methuselah a known one?”

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