Math challenge thing

[J. Landman Gay]

Mark Wieder wrote:
> Jacque-
> 
>> Thierry Arbellot wrote:
> 
>>> put (x+1) mod 4 into x
> 
>> Geez. Now I feel really dumb. You didn't even have to think about that,
>> did you? :)
> 
> Nonsense. Thierry came up with a very elegant solution. I worked away
> on this and managed to pull together two different and clumsy ways to
> get the answer, and luckily didn't get around to posting them and
> making a fool of myself.
> 

Oh good, I'm glad you had trouble too. What I didn't mention was that my 
husband and I both worked on this for about an hour last night. He's 
usually pretty good when I get stuck on math stuff. He couldn't do it 
either. I can't wait to show him Thierry's answer. :)

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