Attempting to use bluetooth for the first time, and it never sees any other devices

I have an iPad 2 about a year old, running iOS 6.0.1. This morning I tried to connect to another iPad, over bluetooth, and neither iPad is able to discover the other. This is the first attempt to use bluetooth on either of these iPads. The other iPad is also running iOS 6.0.1. The iPads were less than 10 feet apart.
On both devices, I went to settings:bluetooth, and turned blutooth "on". This opened up a "Devices" box, which says "Searching...", with a spinning wheel icon. Below this box is says "Now discoverable". Both devices remained in this state.
I haven't used bluetooth before so I have no idea what I am doing wrong.
Later in the day I fiddled with the bluetooth systems prefs panel on my desktop (a circa 2005 intel mac running OSX 10.6.8).

(hadn't finished my earlier message but somehow it posted it before I was ready).
From the OSX bluetooth panel, I turned bluetooth on, and made my computer discoverable. I then hit "setup new device", and was taken to the Bluetooth setup assistant. After a few seconds it showed me my ipad as one of the devices it had discovered. Over on the ipad, though, it did not discover the desktop machine.
After about a minute, I then selected the ipad from the list of devices on the desktop machine, and hit "continue". At this point it said "attempting to pair with MyIpad", and "connection established". At the same time, a panel popped up on my iPad, listing my desktop machines name, and asking for a PIN. It is not clear to me whether it is asking for a PIN that I have supposedly set up on the desktop machine, or if it is asking me to establish a PIN. So I quit.
In any case, my goal in going through this attempt on the destop machine was solely to establish whether the bluetooth hardware is working on the ipad. I believe that has to be true.
So, can someone explain to me what steps I am *supposed* to go through to pair up two ipads over bluetooth?

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