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[Smythe Dakota]

.... Nice one Bill ....

Not original, though.

Actually, nobody would pick nine, because they would immediately realize they were falling into a trap of some kind.

My point was that "what's the next number" puzzles are never very good. It's always possible to run a polynomial through any N points on an xy-plane, and thus to come up with any answer you want.

Bill Smythe

[mikejapan]

I picked 9 because I thought it was a joke like my sequence.

In fact, if you'd read the thread, nobody would not pick nine

[Cec]

"I picked 9 because I thought it was a joke like my sequence...."

Yes, and that's why I picked 9 for the same reason.

Cec

[mikejapan]

It's always possible to run a polynomial through any N points on an xy-plane, and thus to come up with any answer you want.

So could you run one of those polly-normal jobbies and come up with the answer"9"?

[999_Springs]

#8=hhh

#9=hhh

I don't quite understand...

So could you run one of those polly-normal jobbies and come up with the answer"9"?

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y=2x-1+(x-1)(x-2)(x-3)(x-4)(x-5)(x-6)(x-7)...(x-anything)

is one example.
Another example is y=2x-1.

[mikejapan]

y=2x-1

So if y = 9 then x = 5
or if x = 9 then y = 17

So what?

[RW]

Another example is y=2x-1.

What an odd way to look at this problem, no wonder all of you got fooled by Bill! One glance at the sequence should reveal the obvious answer:

y = 8½-|2(x-4¾)|


Challenge: Create a polynomial that continues Bill's sequence to X=6 (Y=9).

RW

[JPF]

see here

JPF