Spiraling Numbers (MMM #36)

July 18th, 2009, 4 Comments

Here is the MMM#36 problem from wildaboutmath.com: Imagine arranging the positive integers in a spiral pattern. The numbers from 1 to 16 look like this in the spiral pattern. 10 9 8 7 11 2 1 6 12 3 4 5 13 14 15 16 The location of each number corresponds to an X,Y Cartesian [...]