{"id":490394,"date":"2026-06-06T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/formula-for-the-nth-term-of-1-2-2-3-3-3-4-4-4-4-5\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:55:00","slug":"formula-for-the-nth-term-of-1-2-2-3-3-3-4-4-4-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/formula-for-the-nth-term-of-1-2-2-3-3-3-4-4-4-4-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula for the $n$th term of $1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4 ,4, 4, 5,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>@MJD I have read the other post. My question is about the sequence and why the formula works and approaches the topic at a different angle as aposed to using the formula to extract the n. There are many similar looking but slightly different questions however I think it would be in best interest to keep this one. Thank you for your concern your effort is appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/math.stackexchange.com\/questions\/455511\/formula-for-the-nth-term-of-1-2-2-3-3-3-4-4-4-4-5\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/math.stackexchange.com\/questions\/455511\/formula-for-the-nth-term-of-1-2-2-3-3-3-4-4-4-4-5<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@MJD I have read the other post. My question is about the sequence and why the formula works and approaches the topic at a different&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}