methuselah

name

1. The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.

   “And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:”

2. A planet in the PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; a circumbinary planet, officially named PSR B1620-26 b, orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”).

noun

1. (broadly)Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”).
3. A large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.
4. A small pattern that takes many generations to stabilize.

   “The first known methuselah was the r pentomino, but even longer lasting ones have been found by enumerating and testing small patterns. The following, called "rabbits," takes over 10000 generations to stabilize.”

   “Is there somewhere a list of n-cell methuselah patterns in Conway's Life? (assuming some reasonable limits on the bounding box)”

   “The pattern below seems to take about 30000 generations to stabilize. The initial population is 20. Is this methuselah a known one?”