Yeah, that was my first line of thinking, too, exactly (though only biological software was needed). But when tipped off about petal numbers and double flowers I saw it the same way Mike did (except for not getting why or how brown box <=> take square root of what's inside is justified). —Dan
On Jun 16, 2016, at 9:11 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
My eyesight isn't so good, so I simply focused on the colors of the flowers.
So, modulo everything but colors, we have:
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