Wolfram code

English

Etymology

Introduced by Stephen Wolfram in a 1983 paper.

Noun

Wolfram code (plural Wolfram codes)

1. A code used to describe one-dimensional cellular automaton rules, based on a mapping of cell states to a digit sequence.
   • 1990 April 29, Rudy Rucker, “vants and wator, calab, long message”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎^[1] (Usenet):

     The rule runs its own randomizer, using Wolfram code 30.

See also

• Rule 110
• Rule 184
• Rule 30
• Rule 90