{"id":2565,"date":"2004-06-04T12:32:47","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T02:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/04\/puzzle-time\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:45:47","slug":"puzzle-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/04\/puzzle-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10871,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.borrett.id.au\\\/computing\\\/petals.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251212220434\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.borrett.id.au\\\/computing\\\/petals.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:37:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:37:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10872,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/member.melbpc.org.au\\\/~lborrett\\\/computing\\\/petals-bg.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10873,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/33485&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20061212033330\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/33485&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:38:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:38:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>How many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borrett.id.au\/computing\/petals.htm\" title=\"Petals around the rose\">petals around the rose<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I figured it out in under a minute (my first guess was half right, three subsequent rolls allowed me to fine tune and confirm the answer).<\/p>\n<p>If you know the answer, please don&#8217;t spoil the fun for others. Let &#8217;em figure it out for themselves. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/member.melbpc.org.au\/~lborrett\/computing\/petals-bg.htm\" title=\"Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose\">Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose<\/a> at a 1977 computer conference. <em>Memorizing dice rolls<\/em>. Fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/33485\" title=\"So easy it's hard\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many petals around the rose? I figured it out in under a minute (my first guess was half right, three subsequent rolls allowed me to fine tune and confirm the answer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[991],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-bill-gates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}