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Anonymous Wed Jul 23 18:39:00 2014 No.6661159 [Reply] [Original]

5 2 6 3 9 6 18 15 ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 18:43:26 2014 No.6661167 45

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 18:45:42 2014 No.6661171 >> 45 why?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 18:45:56 2014 No.6661172 42 [-3, x3, -3, x3.......

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 18:50:43 2014 No.6661180 >>6661159 X, X-3, (X-3)3, (X-3)3-3, ((X-3)3-3)3, ((X-3)3-3)3-3, ...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 18:55:57 2014 No.6661190 >>6661172 First 45, then 42.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 19:34:42 2014 No.6661257 >>6661180 but how you know for sure that that is the function.I would assume an infinite number of formulas can model this finite sample of what we assume to be an infinite series.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 19:39:39 2014 No.6661275 >>6661257 Well it worked for the numbers OP gave us. I'm not denying the possibility that it is false and that the next number in the series might be something not matching the formula, but we don't know that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 19:54:04 2014 No.6662921 File: 43 KB, 550x449, 66249895271.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 4 8 15 16 23 42 ?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 06:43:51 2014 No.6663618 >>6661159 >5 2 6 3 9 6 18 15 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=5+2+6+3+9+6+18+15+next+number >>6662921 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4+8+15+16+23+42+next+number+in+pattern Intellectual checkmate.