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What are the next few rows of this sequence?
/\\
/-\\
/\\\\-/
/\\-\\/
/-\\/\\/\\
/\\\\-//-\\/-\\
/\\-\\-/-\\-/
/-\\\\/\\/\\/\\/
\\/-\\/\\/\\//\\
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Submitted by Gamer
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Rating: 2.4286 (7 votes)
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Solution:
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Going across, - not inside slashes is 0, /\\ is 1, \\/ is 2, /-\\ is 3, \\-/ is 4.
Then converting from base 5 to base 10, you get 1,3,9,27,81,243,729,2187,6561, the powers of 3.
So the next rows are:
/\\/\\/\\\\/\\//\\/-\\
/-\\/-\\\\-/\\//\\\\-/\\-/
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