[extropy-chat] Petals around the rose

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Eliezer Yudkowsky 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.

Got it after:

- 5 minutes of fiddling with the web page
- reading Damien's spoilers
- googling for an answer, not finding it, but looking at dozens of rolls

all that makes me the smartest kid on the block, i figure.

Alfio