[extropy-chat] Petals around the rose

[Natasha Vita-More]

At 07:45 AM 6/5/04 -0400, Eli wrote:

>gts wrote:
>>This puzzle requires only a rudimentary understanding of mathematics:
>>http://personal.baker.edu/web2/cdavis09/roses.html
>>Personally it took me 5 tries to figure it out, which I suppose makes me 
>>pretty stupid.
>
>Got it on the 4th try, making me marginally more stupid than you, but 
>still better off than poor Erik.
>
>My first hypothesis was *almost* right, and when it failed I started 
>complicating it in the wrong direction... let's hope this isn't a metaphor 
>for my real-life work.


"It had taken Dr. Duke well over a year himself, and he would always 
explain that the smarter you were, the longer it took to figure it out." 
:-) (Davis)

I'm a bit of what Max calls an "idiot savant," and math is on the idiot 
side :-)  But after reading Davis's comment, maybe I'll try.

N


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