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Solutions should consist of three things: what you found, the URL where you found it, and how you found that page. It should look something like this:

Q. What can you find about the software program QuasiTiler?

Answer:

1. QuasiTiler draws Penrose tilings and their generalizations. It is a program which is available from the Geometry Center.
2. http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/quasitiler/about.html
3. I searched the Math Forum web site for quasitiler, and it returned a link to the Gallery of Interactive Geometry (the URL is http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/gallery.html), and a link for QuasiTiler was the first thing on that page.

April 1997

1. Which two well-known mathematicians were born on April 15?

2. With what area of mathematics did Florence Nightingale work?

3. Find a working abacus.

4. Where and when is the 1997 NCTM National Meeting?

5. What is the "Fractal Journey-of-the-Month"?

6. Who said, "The different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision"?

7. Who wrote the book "Visions of Symmetry"?

Bonus Questions

I don't know if you can find the answer on the web or not, but it might keep some of you Hunt heavyweights busy for a little while!

• What's the Steiner point of a triangle?

• What are your chances of winning at craps? At roulette?

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