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[wins22]

Wow, that's really tricky... even with the code, it took me several minutes to figure out:P

[BigRob]

Help, I've been staring at this one for hours and still can't find the relationship between "N" and the "(Nth term) - N".

[tdh11]

1 = 3
2 = 3
3 = 5
...
wait


one = 3
two = 3
three = 5
four = 4
....
fifty = 5
...
sixtythree = 10
...
onehundred = 10
...

1 3+1 = 4
2 3+2 = 5
3 5+3 = 8
...
50 5+50 = 55
63 63+10 = 73
100 10+100 = 110

[munkifisht]

The suggestion of subtracting N from the Nth term was a clue.
If you do it, you generate the third column in the following table.

Can you relate the numbers in the third column to N?
If you can, you've solved the puzzle.

N   Nth term [Nth term]-N
=   ======== ============
1	   4		 3
2	   5		 3
3	   8		 5
4	   8		 4
5	   9		 4
6	   9		 3
7	  12		 5
8	  13		 5
9	  13		 4
10	 13		 3
11	 17		 6
12	 18		 6
--	 --		 -
49	 58		 9
50	 55		 5
51	 59		 8
--	 --		 -
62	 70		 8
63	 73		10
64	 73		 9
--	 --		 -
99	109		10
100   110		10
101   114		13

Edit to remove spoiler for a day or two...

I got it, brill.

Spoiler for Don't ruin it. It's a good one, and easy to get to if you realise that it is a code.

it is xth+n where xth is the number of letters of n, so one is 3, o.n.e. and this + 1 = 4, two is 3, +2 =5, three is 5, +3 = 8, so term sixty three is 63+10=73, term one hundred is 100+10 =110, and the term fifty is 50+5=55, so any term is easy to get.

Edited by munkifisht, 03 March 2008 - 01:21 PM.

[theconstantine]

1 = 3
2 = 3
3 = 5
...
wait


one = 3
two = 3
three = 5
four = 4
....
fifty = 5
...
sixtythree = 10
...
onehundred = 10
...

1 3+1 = 4
2 3+2 = 5
3 5+3 = 8
...
50 5+50 = 55
63 63+10 = 73
100 10+100 = 110

Sorry, I bit confused in the first part, well till 12th u derived that 18-12=6, how did u derive at 50th->5

[bonanova]

Sorry, I bit confused in the first part, well till 12th u derived that 18-12=6, how did u derive at 50th->5

The 50th term is 55.
Their difference is 5 = the number of letters in the word "fifty".

[evanlapointe]

Yeah, you can make the explanation much simpler:

Spoiler for solution

Add the number of characters in the text version of the number to the number itself:

"Fifty" is five (5) characters, plus 50 (the number) = 55.

"Sixty Three": 10 characters + 63 = 73

[Lost in space]

Is it possible that you have not gone further than 100 for a reason?
nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine.
What would you make of that using the same formula?

Spoiler for I make it

1.000.015

Back to our friend zero me thinks
Lost in ?????

Edited by Lost in space, 17 March 2008 - 09:47 PM.

[Sharpshark]

Ok i did some number crunching and realized the pattern is something like this
-2, +3, -1, +1, -3, +2, -(-1), +0, -(-4),etc Also it is like this...

-2, +3, -1, +1, -3, +2, -(-1), +0, -(-4),
I...........I..........I...........I..............I
+1 -2 +4 +3

I dont know what it means though...

(LOL i just went up and read the answer. I was SOOOOOOOOOOO off.)

Edited by Sharpshark, 29 March 2008 - 02:26 AM.

[akaslickster]

<_< its too hard.