Nutty Numbers

[Kaycee]

Hello

I have a math question that I need help with I was wondering if you could help me

It is Nutty Numbers

1,2,3,6,2,8,16,2,18,36,2... What are the next 6 numbers in the sequence?

Please help me
Thank you
Kaycee

 

[Denis]

Hello
I have a math question that I need help with I was wondering if you could help me
It is Nutty Numbers
1,2,3,6,2,8,16,2,18,36,2... What are the next 6 numbers in the sequence?
Please help me Thank you Kaycee

How do you know it's a math question?

As example: 6,7,9,8,6,8, ?
answer is 6 (letters in days of the week beginning with Monday);
that's not "math".

 

[Gene]

It is from a math site
http://www.olemiss.edu/projects/mathed/brain/nutty.html
and a six year old is purported to have solved it Why can't I
That leading 1 shoots down every thing I've tried.

 

[Denis]

Boy...I can't get it either! Must be really "subtle".

Apparently, more kids than adults get this one:
m,t,w,t,f,s,?

 

[Denis]

Got it (I think):
...38, 76, 2, 78, 156, 2

add previous 2, multiply previous 2, divide previous 2, repeat, repeat....
1+2 = 3
2*3 = 6
6/3 = 2
6+2 = 8
...
sort of a weird Fibby sequence.

 

[Gene]

I'll drink to that :!:
(but then I'll drink to anything)
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Gene

 

[tkhunny]

Oh, come one! This one is trivial.

Index from 0, one at a time

f(x) = 1.00000 - 99.39325*x + 310.02819*x² - 388.14989x³ + 259.57486x⁴ - 102.63791x⁵ + 25.04801x⁶ - 3.80131x⁷ + 0.34855x⁸ - 0.01764x⁹ + 0.00038x¹⁰

:shock: :twisted:

 

[Gene]

P.S. I think TKH has been too :twisted:
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Gene

 

[Denis]

Perhaps spencer would be interested in that sequence of yours, TK