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  1. ZeeAli's Avatar
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    Find the.......
    Find the missing numbers in the following sequences 1, 2, 3, 5, ?, 13, 21, ?


    anyone get it
  2. anna-chipie 95's Avatar
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    Re: Find the.......
    8, 34.

    Fibonacci sequence?
  3. ?!master?!mini?!'s Avatar
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    Re: Find the.......
    8 and 34

    EDIT: someone beat me to it.

    Add the two previous numbers to get the number you want.
  4. ZeeAli's Avatar
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    wow well done guys! i thought itw as hard lol good work and yes it is!
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    Re: Find the.......
    (Original post by SubAtomic)
    There should be another 1 at the beginning of that sequence.
    No. The sequence is defined such that each term is the sum of the two previous terms. The initial values don't have to be 1, 1 since there is no mentioning of Fibonacci in the question. In fact, the "proper" Fibonacci seq. starts with 0, 1.
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    (Original post by Lord of the Flies)
    No. The sequence is defined such that each term is the sum of the two previous terms. The initial values don't have to be 1, 1 since there is no mentioning of Fibonacci in the question. In fact, the "proper" Fibonacci seq. starts with 0, 1.
    yep thats true!
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    (Original post by ZeeAli)
    Find the missing numbers in the following sequences 1, 2, 3, 5, ?, 13, 21, ?

    anyone get it
    I really don't like questions like this as it suggests there is a single "correct" answer.

    I'm going for 9 and 33 as the missing numbers from u_n = \lfloor 1.552^n \rfloor .
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