RE: Believing in God saves you? From what?

Allow me to have the honor of making the first comment, here, Mr CROWNAFFAIR

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

In actual fact;

You will need to put 2 and 2 together;

AND, put 6 and 6 together;

(in the FIRST given series, that is)........

This will allow you to arrive at the most logically correct answer.....

(Which happens to be the number 26)

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

@ merlot

ALL of the necessary logic elements have been listed....

I have made it very clear to you, how to arrive at the correct result

It is up to you to scroll up through this blog, and "put 2 and 2 together (so to speak)"

(or maybe, I should say; "put 6 and 6 together")....

For this you need coherant reasoning...

But I have already explained (at great length), how to arrive at the correct solution...

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

Have some bears....

teddybear teddybear teddybear

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

QED.

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

tongue tongue wave

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

CORRECTION: READING LEFT TO RIGHT........doh

OK????

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

@ merlot

Finally....the desired term must be a 2 digit number....

Reading right to left.........

The first 2 digit number (encountered) is immediately followed by at least one more 2 digit number......

Therefore, to preserve this pattern; the term we are looking for must have 2 digits

[Sorry I should have put that in the top part of my initial proof (earlier)]....

Now can you argue with this reasoning???

Maybe I should have asked you which number best completes the series?

(but that may have made it "easier" for you....and I wasn't going to do that)

Or maybe, I should have never have started an argument with an Irishman?....

tongue

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

@ merlot

There is ONE pair of 5's

And there is TWO pairs of 6's

(Counting by 1's from left to right)

Think about it ...

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

@ merlot

There is one pair of 5's
And there is two pairs of 6's

As you read the sequence from left to right

Thats the logic

i e ..

.....5,6,...

As I said above treat this as a SET of numbers

There is no

.....a,b,c,d,.....

Notation. to infer that the series is continuous in EITHER direction

Is there?

Remember, we are only looking for ONE term here to 'complete' the set...

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

@ merlot


IF YOU can show me your reasoning, in an Exhaustive Chain of Logic (such as the one I have given you above).....

AND IF it is more logically coherent, than what I have shown you....

THEN I will accept your answer, as being "more correct" than mine. So far you are not convincing me....

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

Sorry, a typo, or 2 in there, but I'm sure that you get my drift

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

It is the "most correct" answer (logically)...these types of questions often have a "correct" answer, and a 'more corrrct' answer. The more correct answer is the only acceptable answer to the question. That is why these questions are difficult.

And, btw, very little formal mathematical education, is required to solve them ..

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

@ merlot

It is called LATERAL THINKING, mate, and forms the basis of high range IQ tests....professor

You have to think outside of the box there Charlie

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

In maths, a number series, (which continues); is written as follows:

1, 2, 3,..........

But there is no such notation here. Instead, we have a discrete set of numbers...

Consider it as a set

We only wish to find the next term (?) and no other...

The set of numbers we have is:

100, 25, 75, 16, 36, 8, 16, ?

Consider the leading digits in the numbers (reading left to right)

They form a separate series....

1, 2, 7, 1, 3, 8, 1, ?

The missing leading digit here is 2 (to complete this series)

So we have a number of the form 2X (where X is still unknown)

(To complete the original series)

What is the second digit X of the missing term?

Now look at the trailing (last digits of each term):

We always have like numbers (in pairs) in the series matched with each other

Therefore X = 6 (to match the neighboring (previous) term (which is 6)

Therefore the missing number = 26

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

The series is

100, 25, 75, 16, 36, 8, 16, ?

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

ok, just a moment...

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

I'll let you dwell on it; I'm going offline, now.....

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

ok, there is no hurry

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

I'll buy you a pint of Guinness, if ever I'm in Ireland, if you get it correct....

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

Once again, incorrect....

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

Would you like me to tell you?

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

I made that one up; actually...I'm pretty sure that the logic is sound.....professor

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

@ merlot

Would you like to have another go?

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

(that is not, correct, btw)

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

Can anybody else?

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

@ merlot

You don't need fancy maths to work it out, it is logic....

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

Can you do that one, merlot?

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

100, 25, 75, 16, 36, 8, 16, ?

RE: Falling powers and what happens next (Mathologer)

Well, that's rather profound, mate, would you care to expand on that?

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