Name: Greg Walsh
Who is asking: Student
Level: Middle

Question:
What are the next 2 rows of the pattern?

3
13
1113
3113
2123
112213
312213

I can't seem to make any sense of this.
Help please!

Hi Greg,

This is a trick example of the type I first learned from John Conway. The process from one line to the next is NOT arithmatic in the usual sense - it is verbal.

Read out the first line, carefully: "one three".
Write that in numbers as the second line: 13.

Now read the second line " one one one three"

Write that as the third line: 1113.

Continue like this.

Cheers,
Walter Whiteley

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