1. A
diagonally
striped
red-and-
white pole used as a
symbol of a
barber shop.
2. An extendable period-2 oscillator in the game of life. Similar to a long ship with half the side cells missing in an alternating pattern; in the next generation, the currently-existing side cells die and the ones that were missing are born again.
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