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Paterson's Worms Revisited
Author

Ed Pegg
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Department: Scientific Information Group
Revision date

2003-10-24
Description

Patersons Worms Worms eat sediment, delineating some sort of path. The 21 November 1969 issue of Science had computer simulations of a few of these worms, in comparison with various fossilized tracks.

Mike Paterson studied these worms, a type of 2D Turing Machine, on an isometric grid. This notebook has more history on these, along with Mathematica code for producing the trails these worms leave behind.
Subject

*Mathematics > Recreational Mathematics
Keywords

Paterson's Worms
URL

http://maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_10_24_03.html
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