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Question about one-dimensional cellular automaton with a finite number of cells

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Ingkwan V.

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Aug 21, 2013, 10:50:02 AM8/21/13
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Hi,


I have a question about the state of an absent cell (an absent neighbor of left-most / right-most cell).

Why do they use the left-most cell as an immediate neighbor to the right-most cell?

What will happen if I assume that an absent cell will always be 0? or 1? or even a random state?


Thank you.

sple...@yahoo.com

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Oct 31, 2013, 5:23:07 PM10/31/13
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I assume we are speaking of a single rule CA (one rule for every cell).

To not wrap left-right (and top-down for 2D CA) would create a non-finite,
i.e. infinite CA.

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