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Title: Guess the sequence Post by rmsgrey on Dec 17th, 2005, 4:47am 1, 8, 72, 46, 521, 612, 343, 215... What are the next few terms, and/or the rule for generating the sequence? (it may be worth skipping the tenth term to avoid giving too much away) |
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Title: Re: Guess the sequence Post by JohanC on Dec 17th, 2005, 4:54am [hide]927[/hide] ? |
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Title: Re: Guess the sequence Post by pcbouhid on Dec 18th, 2005, 2:23am [hide]927, 0001, 1331, 8271,...[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Guess the sequence Post by JocK on Dec 18th, 2005, 3:02am on 12/17/05 at 04:47:37, rmsgrey wrote:
hmmm... you should have asked to give the milionth term... ;D |
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Title: Re: Guess the sequence Post by JohanC on Dec 18th, 2005, 5:14am on 12/18/05 at 03:02:46, JocK wrote:
[hide] 1 [/hide] ;D |
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Title: Re: Guess the sequence Post by rmsgrey on Dec 18th, 2005, 9:26am on 12/18/05 at 05:14:53, JohanC wrote:
Not quite... [hide]0000000000000000001[/hide]... |
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Title: Re: Guess the sequence Post by Grimbal on Dec 19th, 2005, 12:42am Are we going to start a thread whether ...0001 = 1 or not ? |
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Title: Re: Guess the sequence Post by rmsgrey on Dec 19th, 2005, 2:50am The last step in generating a term of the sequence is clearly dealing with the number as a symbol string rather than a value. As symbol strings, ...0001 and 1 are clearly different. Reinterpreting the string as a value is introducing an additional step - it's still a valid sequence, but less simple, so not as good. |
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Title: Re: Guess the sequence Post by JocK on Dec 19th, 2005, 3:56am on 12/19/05 at 02:50:40, rmsgrey wrote:
In that case, completing the sequence given the terms provided (without the tenth term), is a highly ambiguous task. |
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