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Posted by Victoria on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 11:31pm.

All positive integers, one after another, are written in a form of a spiral

7 8 9 10
6 1 2 11
5 4 3 12
.. 15 14 13

where does the number 2009 appear with respect to 1?

(For example, 12 appears one unit down and two units to the right of 1)

maths - MathMate, Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:59am
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