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There is no excuse for my leaving things in a state that can be unnecessarily confusing. (I realize that my machine-gun-like stream-of-consciousness style can be confusing even in the best...

Well, I didn't say, "A dead cell with three or more live neighbors...." That would have been unequivocally wrong.

The way that it ended up: "A dead cell or more than three live neighbors..." is...

My rule six was intended to imply the condition "greater than," not "greater than or equal to." (A typographical error results in the extra "or" in the sentence. Sorry. I had to lay off my...

My statement of rule six has an extra "or" that may have confused people. Sorry. Kill the "or" so it becomes

6. Any dead cell with more than three live neighbors remains dead on to the next...

OK. So go through your code and go through the instructions and see what the output for the first generation should be for the values that you give it. If you can't see why the code is giving you...

When I run your code, the starting and next generation look like this:

Number of rows?
6 8
Number of columns?
Seed number?
7
Birth minimum?
3 8
Birth maximum?