rule 110
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A simple cellular automaton, unusual in being Turing-complete, where each cell's value changes depending on its current value and those of two neighbouring cells.
Etymology
The binary number sequence 01101110, summarising the rule, is equivalent to the decimal number 110. This is the rule's Wolfram code.