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Flawless Series? (Posted on 2003-11-29) Difficulty: 3 of 5
What are the next three numbers in this sequence? 6, 28, 496, 8128, ... ? Please explain how you determined these three numbers.

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re: Real Answer | Comment 35 of 93 |
(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

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