Hello everyone … we hope you will enjoy working on the problem below from the UK and Kenya! Please post your comments below.
First think of an integer written out in letters e.g. sixteen.
Take the number of letters in this number e.g. 7
Write this number out e.g. seven
Take the number of letters in this number e.g. 5
Write this number out e.g. five
Take the number of letters in this number e.g. 4
Write this number out e.g. four
Now we have converged to the number four.
Try this process with other numbers and see what happens.
Is it the same in other languages?
You may want to use the power of Python programming language to explore this further. You can make the Trinket below fullscreen by clicking on the three parallel lines in the top left corner and then clicking fullscreen (and do this again to stop it being fullscreen).
