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Jim Ward

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Mar 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/1/97
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What is the next number in this sequence?

1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, ...

Ilan Mayer

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Mar 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/2/97
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Jim Ward (j...@Radix.Net) wrote:
: What is the next number in this sequence?

: 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, ...

SPOILER

The nth number in the sequence is the number of letters in the corresponding
Roman numeral (I, II, III, IV, V, ... yield 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, ...). Thus the next
number in the sequence is 2 (for XX = 20).

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