John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

math, math x (x ϵ {equity, ed, teacher ed, games, art, comics, foolery}). mathhombre in other places.

6, 16, 30, 48, ... when faced with all even numbers in a pattern, it can be instructive to look at them divided by 2: 3, 8, 15, 24, ... is this familiar? it looks to me like one short of the squares; so i'd probably pursue that route (or notice, equivalently, that the differences are the odds...)