Earlier quoted context omitted.
How will you prove that your answer is correct?
You can only prove that the answer is incorrect.
Why would you think that?
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Re: 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
#32This question is not well-defined. Any number can be a solution.
This question is not well-defined.
It's defined just well enough to identify you as someone who'd rather debate the problem than attack it. In other words, it has done its job.
Re: 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
#33This question is not well-defined. Any number can be a solution.
Here's one interpretation: What will the simplest program that outputs these numbers output next?
The simplest program that outputs these numbers is the program that outputs these numbers, so it doesn't output anything next.
Re: 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
#34Please don't post your homework to the list.
Re: 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
#35Re: 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
#36This method of computing successive terms of a polynomial actually has an interesting place in the history of computers; the basic principle is the same as that used by Charles Babbage's difference engine.
Wikipedia article on the difference engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
Just for fun, a difference engine built with Legos: http://acarol.woz.org/
Re: 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
#37I discovered difference tables as a kid, didn't know they were used much, I was modelling motion on a 2D display (an oscilloscope hooked to a P2P11!). Was a lifesaver for quick polynomial evolution - uses only addition, execution time scales linearly with the order of the polynomial. So, how do you go from the difference table "coefficients" to the polynomial?
Integrate the constant 48 back to the series level:
48 -> 48x -> 24x^2 -> 8x^3
9 - 8•1^3, 73 - 8•2^3, 241 - 8•3^3
Re: 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's one interpretation: What will the simplest program that outputs these numbers output next?
The simplest program that outputs these numbers is the program that outputs these numbers, so it doesn't output anything next.
python -c 'print 9,73,241,561,1081,1849
# or better yet
echo 9,73,241,561,1081,1849Re: 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
The simplest program that outputs these numbers is the program that outputs these numbers, so it doesn't output anything next.
python -c 'print 9,73,241,561,1081,1849 # or better yet echo 9,73,241,561,1081,1849
You forgot the 'output next', bit of the question ;)
Re: 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
#40I loaded into excel, then copy and dragged down to see what excel would say is the next 2 answers ... I got the following
...1081,1849,[1890.067],[2248.467].... Now I just wonder how excel got these answers :/