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Posted 25 October 2011 - 06:36 AM

what does this symbol stand for?

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Posted 25 October 2011 - 10:06 AM

That 'X' can only win with the top row, or the left-to-right downward diagonal.

If you want some other context besides Tic-Tac-Toe maybe you should tell us a little more about your homework... Like what context did you run across this symbol? Is it from railroads, automobile design, the physics of spring tension in a toaster... Because leaving it wide open like you did gives us the entire cosmos to research.

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Posted 25 October 2011 - 10:14 AM

looks like a rubix cube
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Posted 25 October 2011 - 02:31 PM

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Rubik's Cube ^. How does the OP's pic' look anything like a that, DarenR!? :P
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Posted 25 October 2011 - 07:44 PM

If you consider only a 2d representation of a rubik's cube...then yes that square does indeed look like such an object.

It could also be the world's tiniest sudoku board. Hence, we need perspective.
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 04:59 AM

View PostRetardedGenius, on 25 October 2011 - 03:31 PM, said:

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Rubik's Cube ^. How does the OP's pic' look anything like a that, DarenR!? :P



you take this question to literal-- you can't really be serious in answering something that has no parameters.....
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 06:16 AM

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you take this question to literal

Too not to
literally not literal You can be literal. You take someone or something literally.

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Posted 26 October 2011 - 07:07 AM

Haha, it looks to me like a messed up glider.

That symbol is called a "Glider." It's an object (spaceship) from Conway's Game of Life.

Essentially, the glider makes Conway's Game of Life Turing complete and thus makes the game able to create anything. The Glider is the symbol of a programmer-- hacker.

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Posted 26 October 2011 - 07:30 AM

yeah, i just messed up with the symbol i put here..i think the person i know who is using something like this means for it to be a glider

thanks guys :)
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 07:34 AM

No problem~!

View PosttlhIn`toq, on 25 October 2011 - 05:06 PM, said:

If you want some other context besides Tic-Tac-Toe maybe you should tell us a little more about your homework... Like what context did you run across this symbol? Is it from railroads, automobile design, the physics of spring tension in a toaster... Because leaving it wide open like you did gives us the entire cosmos to research.


Surprised you didn't notice!
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 07:50 AM

Surprised I didn't notice... What? That it was for "Conway's Game of Life" ? I've never seen/played the game.
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 07:55 AM

View PosttlhIn`toq, on 26 October 2011 - 02:50 PM, said:

Surprised I didn't notice... What? That it was for "Conway's Game of Life" ? I've never seen/played the game.


Well, it's not really a 'game.' But yea! I am surprised you are not familiar with it.

:)
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 08:18 AM

Why? I'm not much of a gamer. The last arcade game I played was GORF. I've also never watched a 'reality' show. The last show I watched about people stranded on an island had a catchy jingle, hot blond and a dork in a red hat ("Gilligan's Island" for the kiddies out there) I have no idea what the Kardashian family is famous for or why their daughters were given a TV show or why anyone gives a shyte that one got married.

If you are surprised I'm unfamiliar with CGoL, that would suppose you expect a lot of people to know about it. So why is it so popular/well known?


Update:
Oh, wait. We own a Wii. The wife uses it for Tiger Woods golf and I do WiiFit.

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Posted 26 October 2011 - 08:20 AM

View Poststackoverflow, on 26 October 2011 - 08:55 AM, said:

View PosttlhIn`toq, on 26 October 2011 - 02:50 PM, said:

Surprised I didn't notice... What? That it was for "Conway's Game of Life" ? I've never seen/played the game.


Well, it's not really a 'game.' But yea! I am surprised you are not familiar with it.

:)



I have never heard of this game or thing what ever it is... and I am a gamer
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 08:32 AM

Well, Conway is a pretty famous mathematician and his work has been very influential in cellular automation. A large number of algorithms have benefited from his work... kind of gets into chaos theory, fractals and all kinds of goodies. The 'game of life' was a simple algorithm to demonstrate how a tiny formula can generate such chaos and interesting things.

If you are interested in self-organization and other cool algorithms you should give it a look. It's also a great programming project.
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