Recent content by Evan Wilson

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    Graduate Understanding the Box-Ball Soliton System and Its Soliton Collisions

    About the phrase: "Find the first maximal string of only 0s or only 1s no longer than the one to its immediate right, and denote its length m." Here, "maximal" means a string of '1's (respectively '0's) surrounded by '0's (respectively '1's). We select such a string of '0's (respectively '1's)...
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    Graduate Understanding the Box-Ball Soliton System and Its Soliton Collisions

    I have no clue as to the meaning of the text you quoted, but the type of box-ball system I know follows two simple time evolution rules: 1) Starting from the left, choose the first '1' not already moved and move it to the right across all the consecutive '1's to its left until you get to the...