Famous - Orange Level

Since this is my first puzzle, I will readily concede that I may have provided insufficient information, placed unnecessary information that confuses things, or formatted things in a misleading way.

If ever you feel that one of the above is true, let me know how so and I'll try to clarify or modify to fix it.

We were going to say this privately, but decided it is a comment everyone should read.

The questions regarding clarification of your challenge are ones we really like to see. Making good puzzles can be hard. Many who solve the most difficult puzzles daily do not realize this. A good puzzle-maker designs puzzles to be solved in a series of logical steps, even if they may be extremely difficult (or even impossible to the inexperienced) steps.

When first making puzzles, it is very easy for one's mind to assume a step is logical when, in fact, it isn't. Or to unintentionally include false seeming-hints that lead nowhere. (You will hear the term "rabbit-hole" and/or "false rabbit-hole" a lot.)

Here, we have multiple people solve the challenges before release, and even having experienced puzzle-makers, we occasionally find there is too wide of a leap of logic or a "false rabbit-hole" that sends one in the complete opposite direction of that intended. And even with well-designed puzzles, occasionally mistakes slip through. Our longer-term members have caught a couple of such mistakes. This is why, especially when we are otherwise occupied, you will see many more green and yellow website challenges from us rather than orange or red ones.

That said, we cannot say if any of the above is true of your challenge as we have not yet had a chance to look closely at it. This writer's only reaction is to shudder and be reminded of early math classes.

Sorry, no luck on this one yet. Can you give another hint? Perhaps a hint at the first step, or the intended method of solving?

Finally got it as well, that was fun indeed! =) The first post is all that is needed to solve it when you look at it in the right way.

I am doing this on graph paper.  Is