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As for the puzzle on the page, has anyone found out the pattern of the number sequence? [3, 6, 9, 21, 22, 47, 78, 89, 134, 225, 368]

Chinjut 11y ago
Click the "read more" link after those numbers and all is explained.
- 2510c39011c5 11y ago
  ...I just spent 1 hour or so on the sequence...and the following clue is the farthest I've got, the first parameter is the cumulative sum of the sequence, >>> log(1002, 10) 3.0008677215312267 >>> log(634, 9) 2.936454025222717 >>> log(409, 8) 2.89198567764725 >>> log(275, 7) 2.8864493565611764 >>> log(186, 6) 2.9165447502641713 >>> log(108, 5) 2.9091716996047423 >>> log(61, 4) 2.9653686687814433 >>> log(39, 3) 3.3347175194727923 >>> log(18, 2) 4.169925001442312 EDIT: yes, I saw that "read more" at first...I did not want to spoil the puzzle so I tried to solve it on my own for a while but then realized I might have to spend more than 1 hour on this thing -- and at this point I totally forgot there is a spoiler there...
  - thaumasiotes 11y ago
    Why not just fit a 10th-degree polynomial?
    - 2510c39011c5 11y ago
      that would be a good universal solution -- it's just that would be too fast and too assuring to get the most fun out of the puzzle...
mhartl 11y ago
I looked at the sequence and said, "I call B.S.—there is no pattern." Then I saw that the solution is at the end of the bio, not in the article (click on "read more"). Spoiler alert: There is no pattern.
- 2510c39011c5 11y ago
  It's nice that sometimes intuition works out better than desperate reasoning...
Bjartr 11y ago
For what it's worth, The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences[1] confirms his claim. [1] https://oeis.org/search?q=3%2C+6%2C+9%2C+21%2C+22%2C+47%2C+78%2C+89%2C+134%2C+225%2C+368&language=english&go=Search https://oeis.org/search?q=3%2C+6%2C+9%2C+21%2C+22%2C+47%2C+7...
- 2510c39011c5 11y ago
  this is a good database :) Thanks for the pointer!

Chinjut 11y ago

Click the "read more" link after those numbers and all is explained.

2510c39011c5 11y ago
...I just spent 1 hour or so on the sequence...and the following clue is the farthest I've got, the first parameter is the cumulative sum of the sequence, >>> log(1002, 10) 3.0008677215312267 >>> log(634, 9) 2.936454025222717 >>> log(409, 8) 2.89198567764725 >>> log(275, 7) 2.8864493565611764 >>> log(186, 6) 2.9165447502641713 >>> log(108, 5) 2.9091716996047423 >>> log(61, 4) 2.9653686687814433 >>> log(39, 3) 3.3347175194727923 >>> log(18, 2) 4.169925001442312 EDIT: yes, I saw that "read more" at first...I did not want to spoil the puzzle so I tried to solve it on my own for a while but then realized I might have to spend more than 1 hour on this thing -- and at this point I totally forgot there is a spoiler there...
- thaumasiotes 11y ago
  Why not just fit a 10th-degree polynomial?
  - 2510c39011c5 11y ago
    that would be a good universal solution -- it's just that would be too fast and too assuring to get the most fun out of the puzzle...

mhartl 11y ago

I looked at the sequence and said, "I call B.S.—there is no pattern." Then I saw that the solution is at the end of the bio, not in the article (click on "read more"). Spoiler alert: There is no pattern.

2510c39011c5 11y ago
It's nice that sometimes intuition works out better than desperate reasoning...

Bjartr 11y ago

For what it's worth, The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences[1] confirms his claim. [1] https://oeis.org/search?q=3%2C+6%2C+9%2C+21%2C+22%2C+47%2C+78%2C+89%2C+134%2C+225%2C+368&language=english&go=Search https://oeis.org/search?q=3%2C+6%2C+9%2C+21%2C+22%2C+47%2C+7...

2510c39011c5 11y ago
this is a good database :) Thanks for the pointer!