User:CatIsFluffy/The Grand Matrix

The Grand Matrix is a matrix evluating in a version of Nish's BM2 ruleset with the [n] value set to keep the length under 10 at all times. As of July 12 2018 12:00 PM, its value is (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1)(2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2)(3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3)(4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4)(5,5,5,5,5,5,0,0,0)(6,6,6,6,6,6,1,1,0)(7,7,7,7,7,7,1,0,0)(8,8,8,8,8,8,2,0,0), whose FGH ordinal is currently unknown.

History
The day the Grand Matrix was started, I added BMS evaluation features to my Discord bot, including the ability to make the matrix as large as possible whle staying within a column limit. Username5243 asked about using very large matrices and I allowed up to 10x9 matrices. Later, Username would say he only intended to use 7x6 matrices but PlanetN9ne started the Grand Matrix ((0^10)(1^10) with columns<=10) at 10:30 AM PDT on July 12 2018. The matrix continued to evaluate,

Message duplications
Due to the way that the bot that runs The Grand Matrix works, message duplications will slow it down. For unknown reasons, a message duplication occurred at 10:42 AM, slowing down the bot. People were not interested in ending the combo to fix it, but Aarex ended it at 10:56 AM. I restarted it shortly afterwards. I had an internet problem at 11:06 AM, which after fixing caused the bot to slow down 5x. It increased to 9x at 11:07 AM. This was fixed at 11:21 AM. At 11:29 AM, a channel on the Googology server was created for the matrix and shortly afterwards a meta channel was created. At 11:44 AM, the bot slowed down 3x. This was fixed at 11:59 AM. At 12:00 PM, another internet interruption caused a massive message duplication and bot errors, requiring a bot restart.

Significant times
Sometime in the next few years (or longer), the (5,5,5...) term will fully reduce and the (4,4,4...) term will reduce. However, it is very likely the Grand Matrix will be terminated before then.