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

(In reply to re: Real Answer by Charlie)

Indeed, however I cannot be faulted for establishing such a pattern based on the limited amount of terms in the sequence given. While I concede your point that such curve fitting is not usually considered an answer to such a puzzle, I will validate it by saying 4 terms is not usually considered a question for such a puzzle. A flawed question deserves a flawed answer.

Posted by Hal9000 on 2003-11-30 18:02:18