All entries for Monday 23 November 2009

The Curious Incident of the Dog

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story ‘Silver Blaze’, we find:

‘Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’

‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’

‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’

‘That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Here is a sequence: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 26, 28, 29, 41, 44

Having taken Holmes’s point on board: what is the next number in the sequence?

Eleanor Lovell : 23 Nov 2009 09:40 |  Tags: Mathschallenge |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem