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navdeep1771
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Tricky Sequence
« on: May 15th, 2018, 1:03am » |
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Find the 1000th Term of the Sequence:-
1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,31,33,35,37,39,51.....and so on.
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1. Yes, there is "31" after "19"
2. It's a completely logical problem with a logical solution.
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Re: Tricky Sequence
« Reply #1 on: May 15th, 2018, 5:07am » |
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If there were a 7 then it would be all numbers with only odd digits.
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Re: Tricky Sequence
« Reply #2 on: May 15th, 2018, 8:18am » |
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Sorry @Grimbal for that mistake. I was in little hurry when I posted this question.
Well, I modified it and you can try it now again.
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Re: Tricky Sequence
« Reply #3 on: May 16th, 2018, 5:19am » |
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That's a tough one. Maybe all integers with only odd digits?
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Re: Tricky Sequence
« Reply #4 on: May 16th, 2018, 1:14pm » |
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Well, in that case, the 1000th one would be 13779
The easy way to find it is just run a script.
The clever way to find it is to notice it's basically the integers in base five, but encoded with odd digits instead of consecutive digits.
(1+1)/2 * 5 4 + (3+1)/2 * 5 3 + (7+1)/2 * 5 2 + (7+1)/2 * 5 1 + (9+1)/2 * 5 0 = 1000
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Re: Tricky Sequence
« Reply #5 on: May 17th, 2018, 5:36am » |
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Err... It seems that after reaching the first stumbling block, I didn't even read the end of the question.
There are 5 1-digit, 25 2-digit, 125 3-digit and 625 4-digit numbers. A total of 780. 781st number is 11111. To get the 1000th, convert 1000-781 to base 5 and replace 01234 by 13579.
1000-781 = 219. In base 5 it is 01334
Replacing digits gives 13779
Towr is actually cheating. 1000 in base 5 is 13000. His so-called base 5 uses digits 1-5 and not 0-4. Which is actually cleverer than what I did.
- But it is cheating.
- Is it? But it works.
- Yeah... it is the Kobayashi Maru all over again.
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Re: Tricky Sequence
« Reply #6 on: May 17th, 2018, 10:12am » |
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Well, as I said (or at least suggested), I first found the answer just by running a simple loop over all numbers and counting the ones with only odd digits.
The other way I found to get the answer is to convert to base 5, replace all 0s with 5s by borrowing from the preceding digit, and then double every digit and subtract 1.
100010 -> 130005 -> 124455+ -> 137795odd
62510 -> 100005 -> 44455+ -> 77795odd
78010 -> 111105 -> 55555+ -> 99995odd
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Re: Tricky Sequence
« Reply #7 on: May 17th, 2018, 11:45am » |
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Well done guys!
13779 is the correct answer.
So you both (grimbal and towr) are correct and towr is really very clever.
Well, I solved this problem with the same way as of grimbal. But yeah towr's approach is hard to get clicked.
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