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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 1,612 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 instance of is recorded as cellular automaton[4].
  • Christopher Langton is named after Langton's ant[5].
  • ant is named after Langton's ant[6].
  • Langton's ant's Commons category is recorded as Langton's ant[7].
  • Langton's ant's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1986[8].
  • Langton's ant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Langton's ant[9].
  • Langton's ant's Commons gallery is recorded as Langton's ant[10].
  • Langton's ant's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Langton's ant's instance of is recorded as cellular automaton[4].

Origins

Things named after include Christopher Langton[5], a computer scientist[12], b. 1948[13], of United States[14] and ant[6].

Why It Matters

Langton's ant draws 1,612 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.[15] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Christopher Langton

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → cellular automaton
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Mathematics
    Instance of → —
    Discoverer or inventor → Christopher Langton
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ [[Property:P9675]]: 7984, Add qualifier to Rosetta Code page ID `Langton's_ant`"
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