I don't know what to make of this, but I thought it might be helpful to look at in a fixed-width font:
/\\
/-\\
/\\\\-/
/\\-\\/
/-\\/\\/\\
/\\\\-//-\\/-\\
/\\-\\-/-\\-/
/-\\\\/\\/\\/\\/
\\/-\\/\\/\\//\\
The first thing I noticed here is that all the backslashes (\) appear in pairs. So, maybe that's just a red herring, and similar to the first slash and dash problem, I'll try replacing the / with ( and \\ with ), and the - with 1, just for kicks.
()
(1)
())1(
()1)(
(1)()()
())1((1)(1)
()1)1(1)1(
(1))()()()(
)(1)()()(()
That seems to be a little better, but still all of the ( ) pairs don't 'close' properly, even between rows. Also, the rows are not steadily increasing in length, as I had thought they might.
Maybe I'll take a step back and use the original form, only replacing \\ with \:
/\
/-\
/\\-/
/\-\/
/-\/\/\
/\\-//-\/-\
/\-\-/-\-/
/-\\/\/\/\/
\/-\/\/\//\
A nice little argyle piece, but still not very useful. Another thing I notice is that are an even number of \s and /s in each row, and they are paired in order (if you ignore the -s for now):
/\
/-\
/\ \-/
/\ - \/
/-\ /\ /\
/\ \-/ /-\ /-\
/\ - \-/ - \-/
/-\ \/ \/ \/ \/
\/ - \/ \/ \/ /\
Also, now, the rows have some kind of increasing order; if you consider /\, \/, /-\, \-/, and - to be separate entities, each row has at least as many of these pieces as the row before it.
I'm assuming the sequence is some representation of a fairly common sequence such as the counting numbers, odd numbers, prime numbers, something like that.
That's as far as I have gotten, though..
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Posted by DJ
on 2003-10-08 18:32:20 |
First Stabs
