A video game based on Conway's Game of Life, running in Excel

Originally published at: A video game based on Conway's Game of Life, running in Excel - Boing Boing

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Ah, but can you make the Game of Life balance your checkbook? Then I’ll be impressed.

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Apparently it is technically possible:

From a theoretical point of view, it is interesting because it has the power of a universal Turing machine: that is, anything that can be computed algorithmically can be computed within Conway’s Game of Life.

From: Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia

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Here is my review of Yifat’s Excel file: http://www.myspreadsheetlab.com/game-review-the-worksheet-saga/

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