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The answer is 7. 7 is spelled with 5 letters, five is spelled with 4 letters, 1 is spelled with 3 letters, two is spelled with 3 letters, four is spelled with four letters and 8 is spelled with 5 letters.
The sequence is as the number letters would allow is 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
No I already tried that. Two of the options given would qualify and that wouldn't make sense.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(January 19, 2015 at 10:16 pm)Exian Wrote: No I already tried that. Two of the options given would qualify and that wouldn't make sense.
Your right I didn't catch that, darn, try, try again.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
There are two ways to get it. The more mathematical way is than each number is the remainder when the sum of all of the numbers before it is divided by 9:
7+7=14==5 mod 9
7+7+5=19==1 mod 9
7+7+5+1=20==2 mod 9
...
7+7+5+1+2+4+8=34== 7 mod 9
The more intuitive way, an the way I saw how to do it first, is the old trick of repeated adding of digits until you get a single number. This is equivalent to finding the answer mod 9:
7+7=14; 1+4=5
7+7+5=19; 1+9=10; 1+0=1
And so on.
In fact, the sequence is the same if there's only one 7 at the beginning, in which case each number is (twice the previous number) mod 9. Then you get a repeating sequence of 7,5,1,2,4,8,7,5,1,2,4,8...
Math puzzles are sort of my area of expertise; I was a "mathlete" from about 6th grade through the end of undergrad, and was on my school's Putnam team. So, what I mean to say is, I really hope I didn't make a stupid mistake in the above, because boy would I be embarrassed ;-)
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
Thanks, man. The correct answer was indeed 7, and your explanation makes sense (even though there was no way I could've thought of that on my own). Well done!
