title: Evaluation of arithmetic expressions with a cellular automaton
body: <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stephen Wolfram</a> talked about this thing called cellular automaton. The idea was building what are seemingly complex systems from simple rules and starting configurations. Some examples such as Milton Bradley's game of life are demonstrated in this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUcviWn9ACc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">video</a>. </p>
  
  <p>Now I've heard up the grapevine that through the use of computer science arithmetic expressions can be modeled and solved. So for my final APCS project i want to take a given expression using +, -, *, or /, and model it with a cellular automaton. If anyone has resources that you could point me to or some ideas on how to approach this that would be greatly appreciated. </p>