#Life 1.05 #D Orthogonal sawtooth with expansion factor 25 #D Population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity. Its graph is a #D sawtooth function with ever-increasing teeth. More specifically, the #D population in generations t near 30 * 25^n is about 59t/225 if t is odd, #D about 7t/10 if t is even but not == 46 (mod 60), and about 211t/900 if #D t == 46 (mod 60); the population in generation 6 * 25^n - 1125 (n>=2) is #D only 1846. (Even more specifically, the population in generation #D t = 30 * 25^n - 525 (n>=1), is 59t/225 + 1951.) #D #D A shotgun produces a salvo of 4 eastward lightweight spaceships every 120 #D generations. Some are deleted; the others eventually catch up to a pair of #D c/3 spaceships and reflect off the backs of them, forming westward #D middleweight spaceships. When a MWSS returns to the shotgun, it causes the #D deletion of 5 salvos. (Notice the unusual eatering of a pi heptomino, by 2 #D blocks, that's used in this deletion.) 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