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The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Conway in 1970. The game is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state. The Game of Life is played on a two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square "cells." Each cell has 2 states, either alive or dead, and also interacts with each of its 8 neighbors. Its neighbors are the cells that are horizontally, vertically, and diagonally adjacent to the cell. At each step in time, the following transitions take place...