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Number Sequence Puzzle

Postby moonbeam » Jan 17th, '08, 21:25



Quite straight forward enough (ish :roll: ) - simply find the next number in the following sequence:

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, ?



Have fun :wink: .

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If we can sue McDonalds for making us fat and cigarette companies for giving us cancer; why can't we sue Smirnoff for all the ugly gits we've sh*gged ??
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Postby IAIN » Jan 17th, '08, 21:27

1111312211?

dunno...rubbish at this sorta thing...

erm...is it 6? :)

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Postby Lenoir » Jan 17th, '08, 21:30

pahh!

13112221

Easy enough! and then 1113213211 i belive! May have made some silly typing error, but Im sure thats correct!

See if anyone can work out why! Thats a bit trickier:P

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Postby moonbeam » Jan 17th, '08, 21:40

Wild Card wrote:pahh!

13112221

Easy enough! and then 1113213211 I belive! May have made some silly typing error, but Im sure thats correct!

See if anyone can work out why! Thats a bit trickier:P


Bah didn't expect it to be solved so soon lol :shock:

Let's see who can work out why though eh :?:

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Postby IAIN » Jan 17th, '08, 21:56

is it cos it's the answer? :idea:

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Postby Lawrence » Jan 17th, '08, 22:12

Apparently I have a maths degree!

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Postby moonbeam » Jan 18th, '08, 03:33

Lawrence wrote:Apparently I have a maths degree!


Fair enough - but do you know the answer :shock:

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Postby moonbeam » Jan 18th, '08, 03:36

moonbeam wrote:
Lawrence wrote:Apparently I have a maths degree!


Fair enough - but do you know the answer :shock:


..... and by the way - what do you mean by apparently -you either have one or not :shock: .

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Postby Demitri » Jan 18th, '08, 07:29

You get the next number by creating a group of numbers based on the term that comes before it - the first is quantity, the second is the digit.

example:

1 - has 1 "1" in it - so the next number is 11
11 - this has 2 "1's" in it - so the next number is 21

and so on...

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Postby Totally Mental » Jan 18th, '08, 11:45

oooh - I know the answer.

But I can't tell, because that would be exposure! :lol:

But to prove it...

The next line to 1113213211 would be

31131211131221

Ta - Daaaaa

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Postby Lawrence » Jan 18th, '08, 11:51

moonbeam wrote:
moonbeam wrote:
Lawrence wrote:Apparently I have a maths degree!


Fair enough - but do you know the answer :shock:


..... and by the way - what do you mean by apparently -you either have one or not :shock: .


I couldn't get the asnwer last night, And I did a cryptography module!
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Postby Lady of Mystery » Jan 18th, '08, 13:26

:shock: all way over my head

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Postby Replicant » Jan 18th, '08, 15:25

Lady of Mystery wrote::shock: all way over my head


Next in sequence to 1211 is 111221 because...

Look at 111221 as 11/12/21 and then look at 1211 again. In 1211, looking at each digit in turn and taking two like digits as one, there is one 1, one 2 and two 1s. This translates numerically as 11/12/21 or just 111221.

Hope that makes sense. I'm sure there are better ways of explaining it, but there you go.

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Postby Lady of Mystery » Jan 18th, '08, 16:54

thanks Replicant, I think I understood that :D

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Postby Totally Mental » Jan 18th, '08, 17:09

Exposure I tell ya - Exposure!!!!

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