About a week ago I posed the following lexical math challenge. Given the following sequence:
Four
Twelve
Thirty three
Thirty six
I asked what is the pattern, and what might be the next number in the sequence?
To answer the first question, note that “Four” contains 4 letters, “Twelve” contains 6 letters, “Thirty three” contains 11 letters, and “Thirty six” contains 9 letters. Dividing value by letter count, we get a linear sequence:
1 = Four / 4
2 = Twelve / 6
3 = Thirty three / 11
4 = Thirty six / 9
Given this pattern, can you figure out what might come next in the sequence?