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10-12-2011, 03:19 PM #1
Pattern Recognition: How Smart Are You?
So there's a pattern within this sequence, can you figure it out?
Rules:
- The first term (111) is the highest value in the entire pattern.
- All values are whole numbers that are non negative.
- Any math required is basic. No calculus or anything like that required.
And the first five terms of the sequence are:
111, 21, 13, 12, 11,...
Anddddddd GO!Nobody listens to a fkn word fat chicks say. Nobody talks to them long enough to notice they're crazy
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10-12-2011, 03:31 PM #2
10
........I think you have me confused with someone who is far less awesome.
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10-12-2011, 03:57 PM #3
we're not doing your homework for you ... slacker.
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10-12-2011, 04:05 PM #4
Not my homework. Professor introduced it during class as a brain teaser, but I'll take that response as you can't figure it out either. Not to mention pattern recognition for a college level hw assignment seems pretty dumb.
Nobody listens to a fkn word fat chicks say. Nobody talks to them long enough to notice they're crazy
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10-12-2011, 04:06 PM #5
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10-12-2011, 04:38 PM #6
think outside the boundaries of math.. brah.
1
11
21
12,11
11,12,21
31,22,11
13,11,22,21
11,13,21,32,11
so on, so forth.
Edit: either you copied the problem incorrectly, or your professor was drunk.Last edited by pointedem; 10-12-2011 at 04:50 PM.
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10-12-2011, 05:24 PM #7
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10-12-2011, 05:26 PM #8
The only thing I can figure is 111, 21, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. All of the numbers after 111 add to 111. Not much of a pattern, though.
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10-12-2011, 05:45 PM #9
I already answered it for you In the second post.
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa...90731&tstart=0I think you have me confused with someone who is far less awesome.
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10-12-2011, 07:53 PM #10
Are they teaching codebreaking at Miami now?
I still call it The Jake.
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10-12-2011, 08:28 PM #11
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10-12-2011, 08:32 PM #12
Potatoe.
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10-13-2011, 04:47 AM #13
potato.
567life in the real world does'nt work...back to the snow.
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10-13-2011, 11:00 AM #14
Maybe it's a palindromic pattern. If so the next would be 21, 31, 12, 111. This makes the entire sequence 111,21,13,12,11,21,31,12,111. Perfectly symmetric about the 11 and it doesn't violate any of the rules. I guess if all the numbers have to be less than the first one then it should end 11,1 rather than 111.
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10-13-2011, 11:42 AM #15
What advres said. The sequence shown are representations of seven (7) in increasing base systems, starting with base 2.
in base 2: seven is represented as 111
in base 3: seven is represented as 21
in base 4: seven is represented as 13
in base 5: seven is represented as 12
in base 6: seven is represented as 11
Next in the sequence would be seven in base 7, represented as 10. Subsequent entries in the sequence would be 7,7,7 ...
I'm not smart enough to have figured it out without advres's hint.
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10-13-2011, 12:42 PM #16
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10-13-2011, 12:57 PM #17
Now, I'm admittedly not a math person. at all. But I'm not sure I'd consider an answer relying on base systems, or whatever, to be "basic math".
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10-13-2011, 04:38 PM #18
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10-13-2011, 05:32 PM #19
If it is the base system, then 111 wouldn't be the highest value. They would all be 7.
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10-13-2011, 07:04 PM #20
Read this. Translated to English from French. But it explains why I am right better than I could.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate...rUrl=TranslateI think you have me confused with someone who is far less awesome.
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10-13-2011, 07:50 PM #21
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10-13-2011, 08:01 PM #22I touched your avatar
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Umm....pythagorean theorem or onamonapia ?
Took me like 10 minutes to figure out how to change this shit
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10-13-2011, 08:02 PM #23
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10-13-2011, 08:37 PM #24
That's awesome, J.
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10-14-2011, 09:34 PM #25
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
(There Advres goes again, bringing politics into the Padded Room)"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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