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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
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  3. From: nextc.Princeton.EDU!mdd (Mark D. Doyle)
  4. Subject: Re: Another puzzle
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul30.224633.19261@Princeton.EDU>
  6. Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU
  7. Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: nextc.princeton.edu
  9. Reply-To: mdd@nextc.princeton.edu
  10. Organization: Princeton University
  11. References: <1992Jul30.073426.14230@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
  12. Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:46:33 GMT
  13. Lines: 31
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  15. In article <1992Jul30.073426.14230@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>  
  16. ycchin@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Chin Yih Chong) writes:
  17. > Here is another fun puzzle......
  18. > 
  19. > Try to crack this
  20. > 
  21. > 
  22. >                 10
  23. >                 11
  24. >                 12    
  25. >                 13
  26. >                 14
  27. >                 15
  28. >                 16
  29. >                 17
  30. >                 20
  31. >                 22
  32. >                 24
  33. >                 31
  34. >                    100
  35. >                    121
  36. >                           10000
  37. >           1111111111111111 (16 ones)
  38. > 
  39. > Can you observe any relationship between each numbers?
  40. > Can you find a general formula for it?
  41. > 
  42. 16 written in base 16, 15, .... 3,2, and 1.
  43.  
  44. Mark
  45. mdd@nextc.princeton.edu
  46.