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(Message started by: THUDandBLUNDER on Jun 10^th, 2003, 8:25am)

Title: A Very Punny Sequence
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jun 10^th, 2003, 8:25am

B, E, C, D, ?, ?, ?, G, I, M, T

Title: Re: A Very Punny Sequence
Post by Lightboxes on Jun 10^th, 2003, 9:10pm

Could the next letter be "J"?

Title: Re: A Very Punny Sequence
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jun 14^th, 2003, 10:34am

Sorry, that's not what I had in mind.

HINT: [hide]Convert the letters into integers in the most obvious way, and... [/hide]

Title: Re: A Very Punny Sequence
Post by william wu on Aug 16^th, 2003, 12:20pm

no clue, but applying THUDandBLUNDER's hint:

>> str = 'becdgimt';
>> (str+0)-96

ans =

2 5 3 4 7 9 13 20

Title: Re: A Very Punny Sequence
Post by Snifit on Aug 17^th, 2003, 10:20pm

on 08/16/03 at 12:20:53, william wu wrote:

2 5 3 4 7 9 13 20

That doesn't seem very punny to me...

Don't forget that it should be
2 5 3 4 ? ? ? ? 7 9 13 20

Title: Re: A Very Punny Sequence
Post by towr on Aug 18^th, 2003, 12:49am

That also wasn't his answer, it was just an expansion on thud's hint.

Title: Re: A Very Punny Sequence
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Aug 18^th, 2003, 9:49pm

: [hide]EIS (Encyclopaedia of Integer Sequences) turns up an answer of... E,I,S in A075250
[/hide]
OK, it's not very punny.