From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 6,366,548,773,467,669,985,195,496,000 (6 octillionth) generation of a Turing machine in Life computed in less than 30 seconds on an Intel Core Duo 2GHz CPU using Hashlife in Golly. Computed by detecting a repeating cycle in the pattern, and skipping ahead to any requested generation. Hashlife is a memoized algorithm for computing the long-term fate of a given starting configuration in Conway's Game of Life and related cellular automata, much more quickly...