More Math Fun

In general, people like stories about the early days of the computer industry. They like hearing about Bill Gates when he was still lean and mean and thought that 640K was enough memory. As such, they will also like this story about Bill solving the Petals Around the Rose problem in about 90 minutes. I myself have worked on it a couple hours now, and although I feel that I have some small vision into the problem's inner workings, and can guess correctly some of the time, I can also say that I am still a long way off from solving it. I will eventually figure it out. I promise. You can play the game yourself here.