What are the next 2 terms ?
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This sequence is called “Look and say sequence”. The sequence starts with 1 and for the next term, you need to ‘say what you see’ in the current term. i.e. how many of each numeral you see from left to right.
The fourth term is 1211. It reads as ‘one1, one 2. Two 1’.
So the fifth term is 111221.
This reads as ‘Three 1, two 2, one 1’.
So the sixth term is 312211.
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I have attached a pdf from the book The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz. Rather than the solution it gives the notion of how to tackle these kind of problems, and it is worth reading.