What are the next three numbers in this sequence? 6, 28, 496, 8128, ... ? Please explain how you determined these three numbers.

(In reply to Real Answer by Hal9000)

The only problem with this is that a cubic can be fit to any 4 points, and a 4th degree polynomial to any 5 points, etc., so such curve fitting is not usually considered an answer to such a puzzle.

Posted by Charlie on 2003-11-30 17:48:38