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"It took me about 40 minutes to solve the riddle. I am not an expert on pre-Columbian civilizations. I simply decoded a 16th century drawing from a book on mathematical enigmas I received as a Christmas present," engineer Nicolino De Pasquale said.

Memo to self: Must party sometime with that guy. Wooo hooo!

8 posted on 02/03/2004 6:41:24 AM PST by martin_fierro (97.238 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot)

To: martin_fierro; aculeus; hellinahandcart; dighton

"It took me about 40 minutes to solve the riddle. I am not an expert on pre-Columbian civilizations. I simply decoded a 16th century drawing from a book on mathematical enigmas I received as a Christmas present," engineer Nicolino De Pasquale said. <<<

Memo to self: Must party sometime with that guy. Wooo hooo!

Ohhh, you are being sarcastic. I saw that line and thought the same thing. Without the sarcasm. :-/ Anybody know what book this is?

According to De Pasquale, the circles in the cells are nothing but the first numbers of the Fibonacci series...

Oh dear. Those can get really hugh.

58 posted on 02/03/2004 9:23:55 AM PST by Thinkin' Gal

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