[extropy-chat] Petals around the rose

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

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.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence