unreality Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 I made this sequence up, inspired a bit by Octopuppy's recently posted sequence, but I have no idea what the answer is to Octopuppy's so this can be considered completely separate 2, 3, 5, 12, 25, 1, 12, 21, 23, 12, 25, x What is x? And why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dms172 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 the first sequence of numbers is 235122511221 and then it just starts over 2351225X so x must be 1 or 11221 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 peace*out Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 can you explain that to me?? I dont get how that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 unreality Posted October 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 the first sequence of numbers is 235122511221 and then it just starts over 2351225X so x must be 1 or 11221 Uh, what? lol they're all separate numbers One of the answers you gave is correct. But why? What determines a number in the sequence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dms172 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 [spoiler= ]so the answer's 1 i just don't know how to get there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 unreality Posted October 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Yes the answer is 1 ;D But what rule defines the sequence? The modulus operation is involved, as well as base conversion It's actually not that complicated though. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 I'm guessing it's base 6? Because it can't be below that. It could possibly above that but, I am guessing we would have seen a 6 or larger number if the base was larger. So if we change that base 6 sequence to base 10 we get 2, 3, 5, 8, 17, 1, 8, 13, 15, 8, 17, x Now that's prob wrong and I don't know where to go from there heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 unreality Posted October 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 base 6 is used, yes. But something else is also involved the two previous add together to make the next term, ie, Fibonacci-like, however it's modified after the addition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I made this sequence up, inspired a bit by Octopuppy's recently posted sequence, but I have no idea what the answer is to Octopuppy's so this can be considered completely separate
2, 3, 5, 12, 25, 1, 12, 21, 23, 12, 25, x
What is x? And why?
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