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13.17.4 Equivalent rules with a greater neighbourhood size, k.

A rule with a given neighbourhood size k has equivalent rules with any value of greater k. If k<9, enter the greater value of k to transform the rule. For instance a k=3 rule may be transformed to a k=5 or k=9 rule. Although the larger k rule's dynamics is identical, mutations of the larger k rule can be finer grained.