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Can you work out the next letter in this sequence?
H, T, Q, F, S, S, E, N, …

Hint: There are numbers lurking behind those letters. And as it grows, this sequence is shrinking!

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Brainteaser answer

The sequence is the first letter in the sequence of fractions:
Half, third, quarter, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, …
The next fraction is a tenth, so the next letter is T.

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