totalistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the state of each cell represented by a number, and the value of a cell dependent only on the sum of the values of nearby cells.
adj
Example Sentences
- "BTW: Of course the rules were parametrised, so any totalistic 2-dimensional 9-neighbourhood CA could be run."
- "Note that the game of life is not totalistic: the transition function depends on the cell's own state and on the sum of the neighboring states."
- "The Xor operation drastically cuts down the number of operations when dealing with totalistic CA rules. For example, a function of four variables a, b, c, d, returning 1 iff there are exactly two ones and two zeros among its arguments, is represented by this Karnaugh diagram:"
- "Many good applets run Moore binary totalistic rules such as Conway's Life, but WebsideCA also runs von Neumann rules, rules in the "Brian's Brain" family, non-totalistic binary and decay rules, and Cyclic rules."
- "Since Life is totalistic on 8 neighbours, this requires no extra assumptions."
- "... but the B/S notation is _the_ standard for two-state totalistic rules."
Etymology
From totalist + -ic.