If A be one and B be Two <br />And pattern does predict, <br />Then clearly just the letter Z <br />Would equal twenty six! <br /> <br />Yet when teachers say to solve <br />For mystery X and Y, <br />They always seem a bit distraught <br />If I shout “Forty Nine! ”<br /><br />Lazarus Knix<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-last-attempt-at-algebra/