Problem 2494. What is the nth step in Conway's Life?

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Based on 52. What is the next step in Conway's Life?
Generalize your solution to Problem 52 - Give the state of the game at nth step for any size board.
Note: This problem uses the MATLAB convention for indexing (t=1 is the initial state).

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 3 Jul 2020

The link for the problem 52 is wrong. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/52

goc3 on 29 Sep 2020

The link has been fixed.

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