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Maurer Roses

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The graph shows a walk along a rose in steps of degrees (including rotations) with either or petals, according to whether is odd or even. Varying scales the degrees.

Contributed by: Jay Warendorff (March 2011)
Based on a program by: Stan Wagon
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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For more information see:

S. Wagon, Mathematica in Action, New York: W. H. Freeman, 1991.

P. M. Maurer, "A Rose Is a Rose...," The American Mathematical Monthly, 94(7), 1987 pp. 631–645.

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