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Langton's ant

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Langton's ant

Summary

Langton's ant is a cellular automaton[1]. It draws 230 Wikipedia views per month (cellular_automaton category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Langton's ant is credited with the discovery of Christopher Langton[3].
  • Langton's ant's video is recorded as Golly Langton's Ant Gen 15004 20221021.webm[4].
  • Langton's ant's image is recorded as LangtonsAntAnimated.gif[5].
  • Langton's ant's instance of is recorded as cellular automaton[6].
  • Christopher Langton is named after Langton's ant[7].
  • ant is named after Langton's ant[8].
  • Langton's ant's Commons category is recorded as Langton's ant[9].
  • Langton's ant's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1986-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Langton's ant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0q9y8[11].
  • Langton's ant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Langton's ant[12].
  • Langton's ant's Commons gallery is recorded as Langton's ant[13].
  • Langton's ant's MathWorld ID is recorded as LangtonsAnt[14].
  • Langton's ant's Quora topic ID is recorded as Langtons-Ant[15].
  • Langton's ant's Rosetta Code page ID is recorded as Langton's_ant[16].
  • Langton's ant's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[17].
  • Langton's ant's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778780714[18].
  • Langton's ant's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 랭턴의 개미[19].

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Works and Contributions

Langton's ant is credited with the discovery of Christopher Langton[3].

Why It Matters

Langton's ant draws 230 Wikipedia views per month (cellular_automaton category, ranking #1 of 7).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Christopher Langton

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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