[HN Gopher] The Weird and Wonderful Chemistry of Audioactive Dec...
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       The Weird and Wonderful Chemistry of Audioactive Decay (1986) [pdf]
        
       Author : surprisetalk
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-11-21 15:04 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | zvr wrote:
       | Oh, what memories!
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       | I spent a serious amount of time on this when I discovered it, a
       | couple of years after it was published.
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       | Firmly believing that "variations on a theme is the crux of
       | creativity", I studied what happens to the same construct in
       | other numbering bases. Well, not many: based on the first
       | theorem, only unary, binary and ternary were interesting.
       | 
       | I should unearth the report I wrote back then -- although I have
       | no idea where a digital copy might be stored.
        
       | robot-wrangler wrote:
       | Oh hey, I tried to drum up some interest in a recent submission
       | too. A 2024 connection to automata theory here:
       | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20341 And there's code too:
       | https://github.com/AleksandrStorozhenko/ConwayTransducer
        
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