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                      2: The game of "life" was developed by John Horton Conway, a British
                      3: mathematician  at  the  University  of  Cambridge; Life was first
                      4: described in the  October  1970  Scientific  American  by  Martin
                      5: Gardner  in  his  "Mathematical Games" column.  The December 1978
                      6: issue of "BYTE" has several articles on "life".
                      7: 
                      8: The rules are as follows:
                      9: 
                     10:   SURVIVAL: Each cell presently alive which  has  either  TWO  or
                     11:             THREE  of its eight neighboring cells alive will live
                     12:             in the next generation
                     13: 
                     14:      BIRTH: If an empty  cell  is  surrounded  by  exactly  THREE
                     15:             neighbors,  the  cell will be "born" in the next gen-
                     16:             eration.
                     17: 
                     18:      DEATH: If a cell has fewer than TWO  neighbors  it  dies  of
                     19:             loneliness.   If a cell has more than THREE neighbors
                     20:             it dies from overcrowding.
                     21: 
                     22: Most "life" programs allow the user to specify which cells are to
                     23: be  "alive"  for  the  initial  generation, then simply apply the
                     24: three rules above to establish the next generation.  The user can
                     25: simply watch the various patterns evolve.
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