This time everything points to Brazil, the only team to break the sequence when they won in Sweden in 1958.
During initial learning, subjects seem to break the sequence into 'chunks' (for example, 413-21-3214), separated briefief pauses.
That is the sort of record that demands respect, yet if Germany are ever going to break the sequence the time is surely now.
Lazio this time is the designated "home" side, and needs to break the sequence of losing the past five derbies.
He had time to reflect and weigh; impulse had been followed by choice; and choice, in the defendant's view, intercepts and breaks the sequence.
Kyran Bracken conjured up some brilliance to break the sequence of kicks after a quarter of an hour, the scrum-half spinning from a ruck to turn the Gloucester defence inside out.
Someone will say, 'Listen, I've got my boyfriend with me, can you give me an "is yours"?' And I'll break the sequence, and they're happy, and I think, Life is good that this can bring joy".
And while DC had broken the sequence of winless games that had followed them from the awful 2013 season, they hadn't yet produced a performance to suggest they'd truly moved beyond the ghosts of that time — transformed squad or not.
If you break the sequence into two at that point, you have a first "half" which runs until you have one more heads than tails for the first time, and a second "half" which runs until you have one more heads than tails in the second "half" for the first time.
Also heading the right way is Ryo Ishikawa, who opened with a bogey but bounced back with a birdie at 2, and has now moved to -1 with his second birdie of the day at 5. John Peterson, meanwhile, has opened his first-ever Masters with 11 straight pars, and nearly broke the sequence in unconventional fashion, hitting the flag at 12 with an excitable chip from the bank at the front of the green.
