What are the next few numbers in the following sequence?
0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.7, 1.2, 2.0, 2.13, 2.34, 2.68, 3.23, 4.12, 4.264, ...
Note: the original problem erroneously listed the last term of the sequence as 4.263 - this has been fixed
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Submitted by jduval
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Rating: 2.0000 (2 votes)
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I apologize, my last term in the problem was initially listed as 4.263, I have requested it to be corrected to 4.264 by levik. The next three terms are 4.497, 4.874, and 5.484.
Whereas we start with Fibonacci’s sequence shifted immediately right of the decimal place and add it to the next sequential number in the sequence shifted immediately to the right of the decimal place.
(0.1+0.1=0.2+0.2=0.4+0.3=0.7+0.5=1.2+0.8=2.0+0.13=2.13…)
My originally posted soultion was 4.495, 4.87, 5.477, ...
As some have pointed out, I believe I am in error and the last term should be 4.264,
making the next terms 4.497, 4.874, and 5.484.
I believe I used .143 as the 13th fibonacci term and then carried it forward. Doing that, I was able to duplicate my sequence. However someone else came up with my exact solution. Unless we both made the same error, I may have calculated it differently then I am thinking now. I apologize if the problem is in error. I also think that if the problem was in error, it might have been caught by the Journeyman+ in voting.
If the problem is in error, it would have been a good one for tricks, as in what is the pattern and what was the error. |
