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by teraflop 3932 days ago
The notation "B3/S1237" means a dead cell becomes alive (is "born") if it has 3 live neighbors, and a live cell survives if the number of live neighbors is 1, 2, 3 or 7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-like_cellular_automaton