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Letters From the Louvre
What are the next 2 letters of this sequence and what is the sequence's significance?
A, A, B, C, E, H, ..., ...
A, A, B, C, E, H, ..., ...
Hint
"P.S. Find Robert Langdon."Answer
The next two letters are M and U.The sequence represents the letter equivalents of the famed Fibonacci Sequence.
Fibonacci's first eight numbers are:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21
Each number is the sum of the 2 numbers that precede it:
1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, etc...
The letter equivalents would be
A(1), A(1), B(2), C(3), E(5), H(8), M(13), U(21)
The title and hint refer to Professor Robert Langdon of Dan Brown's novel, "The Da Vinci Code". In the book, Langdon and Sophie Neveu encounter the Fibonacci sequence at a murder scene in the Louvre.
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What a superior teaser! Absolutely brilliant! You had me going for a while until I checked the hint and made the connection to Fibonacci. Please do more like this one!
i like this teaser!
Great teaser. I got the next 2 letters but wasnt sure what the connection was
Nice one. I got it because my friend did a poster on those numbers in 5th grade.
I love the title
This teaser is really good (I gave it 2/2 on the fun scale.) It's too bad I got it right away... because I was thinking of alphanumerics right away.
I like the Louvre tie-in, though i didn't get that part. Got the M-U, though. Really good!
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