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From: Peter T. Breuer on 24 Sep 2005 16:27 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET(a)www.heiming.de> wrote: > In comp.os.linux.setup Peter T. Breuer <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es>: >> Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote: >>> Peter T. Breuer wrote (in part): >>>> Here. Here's a chance for you. Next number in this series, please: >>>> >>>> 1 2 4 6 10 12 .. >>>> >>>> Answers by next friday. > 22 No, but that's not a bad attempt. It's a later member of the series all right! > [ possibly ] Peter
From: Jean-David Beyer on 24 Sep 2005 16:37 Peter T. Breuer wrote: > Michael Heiming <michael+USENET(a)www.heiming.de> wrote: > >>In comp.os.linux.setup Peter T. Breuer <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es>: >> >>>Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote: >>> >>>>Peter T. Breuer wrote (in part): > > >>>>>Here. Here's a chance for you. Next number in this series, please: >>>>> >>>>> 1 2 4 6 10 12 .. >>>>> >>>>>Answers by next friday. > > >> 22 > > > No, but that's not a bad attempt. It's a later member of the series all > right! > > > >>[ possibly ] > > > Peter I liked the puzzel like this where a bunch of small integers were given, and they seemed to have a pattern, but unless you were a resident of Manhattan Island, you would not recognize they were the stops of the 8th Avenue Subway. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 16:35:00 up 101 days, 10:32, 4 users, load average: 4.43, 4.37, 4.28
From: Peter T. Breuer on 24 Sep 2005 16:41 Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote: > Peter T. Breuer wrote: >> Michael Heiming <michael+USENET(a)www.heiming.de> wrote: >> >>>In comp.os.linux.setup Peter T. Breuer <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es>: >>> >>>>Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>Peter T. Breuer wrote (in part): >> >> >>>>>>Here. Here's a chance for you. Next number in this series, please: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1 2 4 6 10 12 .. >>>>>> >>>>>>Answers by next friday. >> >> >>> 22 >> >> >> No, but that's not a bad attempt. It's a later member of the series all >> right! > I liked the puzzel like this where a bunch of small integers were given, and > they seemed to have a pattern, but unless you were a resident of Manhattan > Island, you would not recognize they were the stops of the 8th Avenue Subway. Don't worry, this puzzle is purely numeric/arithmetic and no tricks (there, I shouldn't have given you the clue - now you have so much less to consider!). Peter
From: Peter T. Breuer on 24 Sep 2005 16:55 Peter T. Breuer <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote: > Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote: >> Peter T. Breuer wrote: >>> Michael Heiming <michael+USENET(a)www.heiming.de> wrote: >>>>In comp.os.linux.setup Peter T. Breuer <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es>: >>>>>Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote: >>>>>>Peter T. Breuer wrote (in part): >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1 2 4 6 10 12 .. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Answers by next friday. >> I liked the puzzel like this where a bunch of small integers were given, and >> they seemed to have a pattern, but unless you were a resident of Manhattan >> Island, you would not recognize they were the stops of the 8th Avenue Subway. > Don't worry, this puzzle is purely numeric/arithmetic and no tricks > (there, I shouldn't have given you the clue - now you have so much less > to consider!). I'll add by way of background ... this puzzle was set me by the then world (math) Olympiad champion when I walked into Trinity bar as an eighteen year old and was introduced to him as "the scholar at Clare". He wasn't much good at conversation. Or walking down the street come to that. But the pressure of having to think of the answer to keep face then has meant that the problem has stayed embossed in my head all these years. Peter
From: Unruh on 24 Sep 2005 17:18
"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es> writes: >Michael Heiming <michael+USENET(a)www.heiming.de> wrote: >> In comp.os.linux.setup Peter T. Breuer <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es>: >>> Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote: >>>> Peter T. Breuer wrote (in part): >>>>> Here. Here's a chance for you. Next number in this series, please: >>>>> >>>>> 1 2 4 6 10 12 .. >>>>> >>>>> Answers by next friday. There are an infinite number of answers. Any number from minus infinity to infinity can be justified as the next number. |