Misha Lemeshko's blog: The greatest math problem ever. Part 2.

12 September, 2009

As a comment to one of my posts, Dave proposed the following puzzle:

1
11
21
1211
111221

what's the next line?

Charles Wells said...: 2241; 16:25
Daniel Lemire said...: This was was easy. Just read them out loud.; 16:40
Anonymous said...: 312211

Iv; 22:27
Lemeshko said...: I see that you guys have got different answers to the problem... :); 21:20
Ivy Rose said...: So? What's yours?; 22:58
Lemeshko said...: Dear Ivy, I don't have any answer yet. :)

And what is yours?; 23:09
Ivy Rose said...: 312211

Ivana = Iv = Ivy :)

Login failed before.; 23:31
Lemeshko said...: Sorry about that, Ivana.; 23:32
Anonymous said...: Oh this is supposed to be a problem they present you with at your job interview at Google...

Oh and the answer is
312211; 21:39
Anonymous said...: Hmm..im fr0m malaysia n n0t s0 bright..c0uld u tell me h0w d0 u get the answer?; 05:06
Anonymous said...: 1111211122 is the answer...; 13:17
Unknown said...: 312211 i solved it; 02:16
Unknown said...: 312211; 02:18
Anonymous said...: You can’t have 3, here. Look the problem end to begin to find the solution. It’s a L-System.; 11:23