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(Message started by: ThudanBlunder on Aug 7^th, 2007, 4:32pm)

Title: Missing Digits
Post by ThudanBlunder on Aug 7^th, 2007, 4:32pm

1 ? 1 4 1 9 1 8 1 9 ? 9 1 9 ? 5

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by ThudanBlunder on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 7:50am

Hint:[hide]History[/hide]

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by pex on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 8:14am

on 08/22/07 at 07:50:19, ThudanBlunder wrote:

Hint:[hide]History[/hide]

Ah! [hide]9, 3, 4[/hide]?

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by denis on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 8:17am

WW 1 and WW 2 ?

EDIT: Pex beat me to the punch

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by ThudanBlunder on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 5:15pm

Well done.

I couldn't get this one in an IQ test: :o
79, 1012, 1315, 1618, ?

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by Sameer on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 6:38pm

1921??

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by denis on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 8:27pm

~~1883 was a major one. May have been another between 1883 and 1618~~ ok not looking for volcanoes although AD 79 was pretty tricky.

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by denis on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 8:42pm

1680?

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 9:00pm

I think 1921 is the answer, and there is a typo. Perhaps instead of 79, it's supposed to be 709?

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by denis on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 9:25pm

Check out page 52 of the PDF below

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1440-1843.2006.00783.x

Look at the numbers on the x axis of the first chart.

Its a coincidence but strange nonetheless.

Title: Re: Missing Digits
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 10:09pm

hmmm, I didn't do too much investigation, but it would appear that I would need to subscribe to that journal in order to view the pdf.

I'll take your word for it that there is some really strange coincidence in which those numbers come up, or something. ;D