# The 2012th letter

Consider the pattern 
abbcccddddeeeee ... When the part with 11 "k‘ ’s end, the pattern continues with 12 "a‘’s, 13 "b‘’s and so on. What is the 2012th letter in this pattern?

Note by Sheikh Asif Imran Shouborno
5 years, 6 months ago

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'h'

As I understand the k's always appear in quantities multiple of 11.

- 5 years, 6 months ago

I think it's 'h'.

- 5 years, 6 months ago

It turns out that the answer is just h.

Proof:

define a "cycle" to be going from an a adjacent to a k to the next k adjacent to an a.

The first cycle has 66 letters. The next has 66+11x11=66+121. The next has 66+2x121. Et cetera

We see that the first five cycles have 66x5+121x10=1540 letters. This leaves 472 letters. We see that in the sixth cycle, a occurs 56 times.

This leaves 416 letters after the a's.

This leaves 416-57=359 letters after the b's.

This leaves 359-58=301 letters after the c's.

This leaves 301-59=242 letters after the d's.

182 after e's, 121 after f's, 59 after g's

H.

- 5 years, 6 months ago

Can you please give me a small idea why the digits in the second cycle are 66+121?

- 5 years, 6 months ago

each of the 11 letters appear exactly 11 more times than in the first cycle.

- 5 years, 6 months ago

h

- 5 years, 6 months ago

tttr

- 1 year, 4 months ago

trwrew

- 1 year, 4 months ago

tere

- 1 year, 4 months ago

H , done by geometric sum

- 5 years, 6 months ago

I think L

- 5 years, 6 months ago

There is no 'L'. It goes up to 'k' & starts from 'a' again.

- 5 years, 6 months ago

Sorry , i mean A

- 5 years, 6 months ago

How do you say it is "a"??

- 5 years, 6 months ago

h??

- 5 years, 6 months ago