Can you solve this?

q = 1

I'd say 1.

It looks to me as if the numbers represent the number of bounded areas within the letters.

yitwail/drewdad please explain you are talking to a math idiot

well, it's the number of complete loops the letter has, so anything like a circle, like o, d, even a, if you leave out the parts that stick out, and ignore that what's left is a triangle, contains one loop. whereas a B, like an 8, has two, and most letters, like L or T or Z, don't have any.

A - one enclosed area
B - two enclosed areas
C - no enclosed areas
D - one enclosed area
etc.

DD's explanation's better, but just to clarify things, an "enclosed area"--which could also be called a closed curve--has an inside and an outside, while an "open curve," like the letter C or S, doesn't.

Thanks both of you, I've got there :wink: