That looks brilliant from a distance
]]>Here is a picture of the bounding rectangle they are talking about.
]]>I thought it was. You have to predict how high and far to the left, right and down the tree grows.
]]>When I spotted that pattern, I used mathematica to do the 110 iterations using the trick. This would have required drawing 1298074214633706907132624082305024 squares by brute force! But instead it only took 880.
]]>First of all, it requires a lot of tinkering because I was hampered by not knowing geogebra's full range of uses. I had to use mathematica for the programming instead.
Anyway, take a look at benice's picture in post one. The one on the left if rotated 180 degrees counter clockwise is what the tree looks like. Had I been able to do that using geogebra I would have solved the problem in 10 minutes instead of 4 days.
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