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A Very Punny Sequence  
« on: Jun 10th, 2003, 8:25am »
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B, E, C, D, ?, ?, ?, G, I, M, T
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Re: A Very Punny Sequence  
« Reply #1 on: Jun 10th, 2003, 9:10pm »
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Could the next letter be "J"?
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Re: A Very Punny Sequence  
« Reply #2 on: Jun 14th, 2003, 10:34am »
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Sorry, that's not what I had in mind.  
 
HINT: Convert the letters into integers in the most obvious way, and...  
 
 
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Re: A Very Punny Sequence  
« Reply #3 on: Aug 16th, 2003, 12:20pm »
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no clue, but applying THUDandBLUNDER's hint:
 
>> str = 'becdgimt';
>> (str+0)-96
 
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     2     5     3     4     7     9    13    20
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Re: A Very Punny Sequence  
« Reply #4 on: Aug 17th, 2003, 10:20pm »
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on Aug 16th, 2003, 12:20pm, william wu wrote:

     2     5     3     4     7     9    13    20

That doesn't seem very punny to me...
 
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Re: A Very Punny Sequence  
« Reply #5 on: Aug 18th, 2003, 12:49am »
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That also wasn't his answer, it was just an expansion on thud's hint.
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Re: A Very Punny Sequence  
« Reply #6 on: Aug 18th, 2003, 9:49pm »
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: EIS (Encyclopaedia of Integer Sequences) turns up an answer of... E,I,S in A075250

OK, it's not very punny.  
 
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