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#1 2006-06-27 18:52:24

A Guy Who Needs Help
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Pattern Help. First 4 numbers: 64, 243, 256, 125

Help me! I can't figure out this pattern, this is it:

64, 243, 256, 125, ___, ___

Please help, Thanks,

A Guy Who Needs Help

#2 2006-06-27 22:18:22

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Re: Pattern Help. First 4 numbers: 64, 243, 256, 125

No luck yet ...

In binary: 01000000, 11110011, 100000000, 01111101
In hex: 40, F3, 100, 7D

8², ?, 16², 5³


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#3 2006-06-28 01:27:38

Ricky
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Re: Pattern Help. First 4 numbers: 64, 243, 256, 125

Hmm...  good call MathIsFun.

But is this a pattern?  Can we just say 8² is next and it starts again?


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#4 2006-06-28 01:29:02

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Re: Pattern Help. First 4 numbers: 64, 243, 256, 125

Make sure we submit this to the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences once we figure it out, 'cause it ain't there.


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#5 2006-06-28 13:41:23

John E. Franklin
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Re: Pattern Help. First 4 numbers: 64, 243, 256, 125


igloo myrtilles fourmis

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#6 2006-06-28 15:18:41

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Re: Pattern Help. First 4 numbers: 64, 243, 256, 125

Nicely done John!


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#7 2006-06-29 06:34:58

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Re: Pattern Help. First 4 numbers: 64, 243, 256, 125

John E. Franklin wrote:

so technically this isnt an integer series, because carrying on you would have 1, 1/9, 1/100 etc


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#8 2006-06-29 09:42:51

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Re: Pattern Help. First 4 numbers: 64, 243, 256, 125

Was that a good example of team work (with John as the striker)?


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