Petals around the Rose

http://personal.baker.edu/web2/cdavis09/roses.html

Some of you will get it in minutes, others (like Bill Gates) will take hours if not days. If you know it already, or have cheated, please don't give up the secret. It's a great thinking problem. All you need is the most basic of math skills.

They say the smarter you are, the longer it takes (this is not completely true, but the strategy of thinking sometimes perplexes the book people :p), so all you braggarts that come in and say you got it in 30 seconds, well, you may not be as smart as you think you are.

For the record, it took me nearly a half hour. I wanted to cheat so badly, but I just couldn't bring myself to it. Life was good again once I figured it out.

i dont get what the hell they mean by the rose?? god im stupid.

=P Got it. It foobar'd once though. If you have all 1's there are no petals =) It errored itself.

I got it on the first try?

Marble: If you understand it, the five 1's is correct...it's supposed to be that answer.

I got in on the first try...

I posted this game in a few other places before...

It's the biggest joke ever, it's such a load of crap that means nothing. It's just bogus.

sorry people but i dont understand WHAT THE HELL IS THE ROSE???

damm i just got it, i got it i got it. it took me a long long time. does this means im very very smart? it saids the longer you take the smarter you are...

I still didn't get it, maybe I should just stop thinking.

i still havent got it in ~10 tries :|