glenn morton wrote:
>
> At 07:31 AM 2/25/00 -0500, George Murphy wrote:
> > Maybe a better illustration of this point is the question, "What is the
> >next number in the sequence
> > 1,2,3,4,5 ?
> >The answer is "of course" 126 .
>
> I didn't see the solution to this. If I missed it my apologies. Why is 126
> the solution? Color me slow here.
The numbers _could_ be those of the sequence {(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4)(n-5) + n}
for n = 1, 2, .... . But they could be lots of other sequences too.
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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