Thank you @rowcased!

Consider Codewars a panopoly of restaurants. Given the inclinations of your palate, you can freely choose where to eat your next meal.

Your assumption that this task requires math is also false. There are solutions that rely heavily on programming concepts such as iteration and recursion, with only minimal math. Anyway, I would never downvote a good quality code challenge, even if I don't like it. But you vote however you want. I just think it's better you stay from (what you consider to be) math heavy kata's, rather than to preach your disgust of them.

I had similar issues; it seems that this kata is all about finding an algorithm rather then an optimization for a solution of the related kata "Spinning Rings". Hope that helps a bit.
Have fun!

False assumption.
I read it and that's exactly the reason why I feel disappointed. Just wrote this as explanation for the author so he knows why I did not rate it well.

I'm disappointed you didn't read the first paragraph of the description, clearly stating this is a performance version of an easier coding challenge.

I am disappointed, because to me it feels like this kata is just about finding a math solution, not how to code a solution.
Thought this is Codewars, not Mathwars.

Just as feedback: Liked this very much; no issues on my side.
Thanks!