and the answer is...
1 (one one)
11 (two ones)
21 (one two, one one)
1211 (one one, one two, two ones)
111221 (three ones, two twos, one one)
312211 (one three, one one, two twos, two ones)
13112221 and so on.
Sorry - it amused me for a little while!
11 (two ones)
21 (one two, one one)
1211 (one one, one two, two ones)
111221 (three ones, two twos, one one)
312211 (one three, one one, two twos, two ones)
13112221 and so on.
Sorry - it amused me for a little while!
posted by Smat @ 10:56 AM
5 Comments:
At 1:27 PM,
surly girl said…
i still don't get it....!!
At 7:08 PM,
Smat said…
you start with 1, so write it down. Then you say what you have which is one one, so write that down as the next number (1 1) which looks like eleven but is actually one space one. So then you have two ones, so write that down third as 2 1. Then you have just written down one 2 and one 1 (1 2 1 1), which you write down as your fourth number. The fifth number in the sequence is how many of which digits in the previous number, and so on.
I'm useless at explaining stuff, so if that doesn't make any sense, then try Stef the engineer - as a techy kind of person, he ought to be better at this than me.
At 8:27 AM,
Stef the engineer said…
Tetchy? Oh. >Sniff<. Deeply hurt. (Have you been talking to wifey?)
I couldn't get it at first, and just read what there was out loud, in a frustrated and angry tone of voice (this might be the key).
"One one", "two one", "one two, one one" (as smat has written).
Then I realised that each line I was reading was a description of the line before.
Gave myself a pat on the back, and accepted the power of being tetchy as a problem solving technique.
elobyi: Annoying Ewok hero from "Return of the Jedi." Killed by a stormtrooper to massed cheers from the audience.
At 8:48 AM,
Smat said…
Stef - I wasn't being insulting - I said "techy" as in "technical" as opposed to being snappy and short-fused! But here was me thinking you had brilliant non-verbal reasoning skills - I'm now disappointed and disillusioned.
At 11:11 AM,
Stef the engineer said…
Oh, yes. Mis-read. And proved the point. Which you hadn't made in the first place. Oops. (And I have verbal and numerical reasoning tests on Sunday. Not good!)
Stef: disappointing and disillusioning women since 1965. Well, maybe 1982.
dcpoo: Gastroenteritis caught in the capital of the USA.
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