Elementary cellular automaton

Created by Julien Palard

Build a program taking an integer as single parameter, .

This integer is a rule number in the Wolfram code.

Your program will display a 79×40 table filled with # for ones (1s) and . for zeroes (0s), as a result of running an elementary automata for the given rule number (the int parameter).

The first line will always be filled with zeroes except for a single cell with a 1 right in the middle.

The "board" is a cylinder: on the left of the leftmost column is the rightmost column, and vice-versa.

Here is an example, so you can check your implementation visually:

julien@prof$ python solution.py 90
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Don't forget to print something friendly if the human forgot to give the rule number as a parameter of your program.

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