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First Forward Into Logo 12: Puzzling Sums
Age 11 to 18
Challenge Level 
First Forward Into Logo
Previous: FF11
| In FF9 you looked at several different sequences of numbers.
Here are more programs that generate sequences.
Now consider the following procedures.
TO SUMO :X :N
PR :X
WAIT 120
SUMO :X + :N :N + 2
END
What do you think is happening this time?
Try 'chasing' through the procedure the values: x= 1 and n = 1.
The output from this program is given on the right.
Now why not experiment further by changing the fourth line?
For example:
TO SUMO :X :N
PR :X
WAIT 120
SUMO :X + :N :N + 3
END
Or
SUMO :X * :N :N - 3
SUMO :X + :N * 2 :N + 1
SUMO :X - :N :N + 3 Etc
Any surprises?
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1
2
5
10
17
26
37
50
65
82
101
122
stopped
in SUMO
2
6
8
8
6
2
-4
-12
-22
-34
-48
stopped
in SUMO
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You might like to learn more Logo programming with Muggles, Logo and Gradients if you have not worked through it yet.
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