Here's a deeply satisfying number pattern for your mathematical Monday. Here, Numberphile explains the Kolakoski sequence, which begins as follows: 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2 ...
A number sequence has gone viral on the internet this week, reading: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, ?. At first glance, it looks easy, but once people start solving it, they realize spotting the pattern is not so ...
From the second number onward, each number in the sequence is the product of the digits of its predecessor. The next two numbers are therefore 3 × 3 × 6 = 54 and 5 × 4 = 20. All subsequent numbers in ...