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

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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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