Challenge exercise This exercise involves setting up the state table based on an additional integer parameter passed to the constructor of Automaton. The eight 1/0 values in the lookup table could to interpreted as eight binary digits encoding a single numerical value in the range 0-255, in much the same way as we have interpreted the triplet of cell states as representing an integer in the range 0-7. The least-significant bit would be the value in stateTable[7] and the most significant bit in stateTable[7]. So the patters used in the initialization of stateTable, above, would bean encoding of the value 146 (128 +16 + 2). In fact, that is exactly how the 256 Wolfram codes are used—a code in the range 0-255 is turned into its 8-bit binary representation and the Emmy digits are used as the settings of the state table. Add an integer parameter that holds a Wolfram code to the constructor of Automaton, and use it to initialize stateTable. To do this you will need to find out how to extract the individual binary digits from an integer. Use the least-significant bit to set element 0 of the lookup table, the next to set element 1, and so on. Hint: You could lither do this using integer operations such as % and 1, or bit-manipulation operators such as » and &.
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