Math riddel

The next number is the one after the 5.

lol, clever

It looks like it should be 34, but I can't figure out the pattern for your placement.

now, explain how you got 34. welcome 2 A2K zex.

Ah, yeah. It looks like a mixed up order of the Fibonnaci (sp) sequence. It's the one that takes two numbers, adds them to get a third, then sums the second and third to get a fourth, the third and fourth to get a fifth, etc.

This takes the traditional Fibonnaci (1, 1, 2, 3...)and mixes it up, somehow. I still don't see how, but that's alright by me.

how do you know it's not 55 then 34?