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Conference rusure::math

Title:Mathematics at DEC
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2083
Total number of notes:14613

835.0. "Another Sequence Puzzle" by BLITZN::ROBERTS (Ask Me About Toastmasters) Thu Mar 03 1988 10:41

    Here's an easy one (just for fun). What's the next number in this
    sequence of numbers?
    
    1, 11, 111, 15, 5, ...
    
    						/Dwayne
    
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835.1What base are we working with?ALIEN::RABAHYdtn 381-1154Thu Mar 03 1988 11:494
Spoiler follows;


51, 511, 5111, 1A, A, A1, A11, A111, A15, A5, A51, A511, A5111, A1A
835.2AITG::DERAMOThink of it as evolution in action.Thu Mar 03 1988 19:376
    more spoiling:
    
    
    they are mixing Roman numerals with hexadecimal
    
    but what comes after AAA1A ?