Absurd Line Numbers

JC had just gained his fellowship and joined Sidney as had I as an undergraduate. I knew some mathematicians and visited his rooms with them. It was as you would expect, crammed with all sorts of games and toys, which he liked to demonstrate and talk about. ;-)

Later I read as much as I could follow of ‘On Numbers and Games’.

I’ve never met John Conway, but I did write a Game of Life program in PDP8 Assembler, which ran on the QMC Nuclear Department’s 8k x 12bit PDP8.

Do you get a consolation prize if you can define the square root of 2 raised to the power of 2?

But you would have to share the result with someone else, otherwise you wouldn’t have a prize.