Sequence E.T. cetera (Posted on 2005-04-05)

	Submitted by Larry
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First, here is the corrected problem: see Charlies post Sequence E.T. cetera Call me a "simple Simon", but I think this one hurts. Find the next 4 digit number in the sequence, and explain. 2174 1906 1979 1906 2106 2329 2033 2247 2106 2174 2106 2188 2329 2061 2329 2174 2033 2174 2188 1979 2247 2033 2247 1979 2174 2174 2188 2174 2033 2061 2329 2106 Some rather obscure knowledge about telephones was needed to solve this one, though I did leave five clues: "Sequence" in the title (codes for a sequence of numbers rather than letters) "E.T." as in "E.T. phone home" (intentionally misspelling et cetera), "Call me", "simple Simon (as in "met a pie man"), and "hurts" as in "hertz". The telephone keypad generates 2 frequencies each time a key is pushed. I took the two frequencies for each number and added them together. The numbers in the sequence translate to the digits of pi, the next one being "0", or 2277. Here is the frequency table showing the high and low tones made by the telephone keypad. ____ 1209 1336 1477 697 1 2 3 770 4 5 6 852 7 8 9 941 * 0 # Movie trivia, phone phreaking information, and math knowledge.

	Subject	Author	Date
	Corrected problem restated	Larry	2005-04-06 22:33:53
	re(2): Tracking this	Larry	2005-04-06 22:20:50
	re: Hint	armando	2005-04-06 16:52:19
	re(2): Tracking this	pcbouhid	2005-04-06 16:45:33
	re(2): Tracking this	Hugo	2005-04-06 16:29:59
	re: Tracking this	Charlie	2005-04-06 13:45:45
	Tracking this	Charlie	2005-04-06 13:20:39
	re: Hint	pcbouhid	2005-04-06 13:05:29
	Hint	Larry	2005-04-06 04:14:17
	What I have noticed	Dustin	2005-04-06 01:54:46
	So completely confused.	Philip	2005-04-06 01:34:54