Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!sun!idi!qubix!lab From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Re: modified series Message-ID: <1382@qubix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 16:25:19 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1382 Posted: Mon Sep 17 16:25:19 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 08:14:36 EDT References: <842@ihuxe.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 20 > + > + 2 3 10 12 13 20 21 ?? > + > +The intended answer was probably 22 (I won't give away the reason), but > +I can also make a good case for 23. Who can give the next term in the > +following series? > + > + 2 3 10 12 13 20 21 23 30 31 32 > By intuition(and some logic), I'll go with 40. ZAP! You lose...think again and you'll get 102. (ROT13: aba-ercrngrq qvtvgf, onfr sbhe) (This assumes that the series could go (at least finitely) to the left as well.) -- The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford {amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.