Philip knows his numbers

[wrog]

1	13	14	6*	6
2	5	15	11	8
3	7	10	16	61**
4	17	18	12	20

Philip has now reproduced the above arrangement of numbered blocks something like 5 times in the past week or two.

I keep resetting it to the correct arrangement

1	2	4	8	16
13	7	14	9	18
17	15	11	3	6
12	5	10	20†	19††

to no avail.

<td>††</td><td>yeah I know 19 isn't quite right here, but it's the only remaining block, so bite me.</td>

*	upside-down 9
**	upside-down 19
†	hey, it works

Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

From watching the between-show "shows" on Noggin and PBS Kids, we get:

ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERO
UNO
DOS
TRES
QUATRO
CINCO
SIX
SEVEN
OCHO
NUEVE
DIEZ

I'm hoping I can steer him away from being a math major like his father.

*looks at whose journal I'm commenting in*

Forget I said that last bit. *innocent whistling*

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Try teaching him to count to ten in as many languages as possible -- maybe then he'll become a linguistics major!

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

I think the teens get mixed around a bit now and then, those are the only ones he's not totally consistent with. Because this morning he had the 16 where the 12 is.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I know I'm bad at math, but his arrangement makes more sense to me (i.e. not much) than yours does...

[wrog]

put the rows one after another (i.e., 1,2,4,8,16,13,7,14,9,18,17,...)

and here I was thinking the first five in the sequence gave everything away

Re:

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Is that supposed to be more clear? I'd already looked at them in that sequence.

The first five seem to have a certain logic amongst themselves, but I can't see any in the context of the others.

[clauclauclaudia]

You're crazy, but you're my kind of crazy.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't get the rules to this game. Speaking of rules, looks like you're missing a /TR after "hey, it works" that's doing crazy things to my Friends page.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

One other thing to consider in P's arrangement is that the numbers are different colors, cycling through in fours, so 1 5 9 13 17 are all red, etc... So I think some of the numbers that P views as interchangeable are the same color. The only ones i know for sure are consistent every time are 1 2 3 4 5 7 6 (9) (19) 20, something blue immediately to the left of 20. But I'm fairly certain that the 4 times I saw him dump and replace this morning the pattern was the same each time. Which is kinda scary.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Now, see, I can understand color.

The math geeks I deal with while playing Go get frustrated with me because I can't count the score in the middle of the game, too.

[artname.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh ID Number: A036120 at http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/index.html. why didn't you just SAY so ..