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A 'well known' Sequence (Posted on 2006-05-11)

You are given a sequence of numbers as follows:

0,0,3,2,25,24,203,202,_,_,2299,_,...

Given these terms, what are the missing values?

What is the formula for finding the nth term in the sequence?

Submitted by Justin

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Solution: (Hide)

The three missing values are 201, 200, and 2298.
The formula defining this sequence uses 'well known' numbers. Prime numbers to be exact. Using the function primorial(#), the sequence is defined explicitly as:
A(n)=(n#-n)

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Subject	Author	Date
Explanation to Puzzle Answer	K Sengupta	2022-08-19 22:30:51
Puzzle Answer	K Sengupta	2022-08-19 22:13:33
The suspence is ........	Salil	2006-05-29 12:54:09
re: A wild guess	Jer	2006-05-25 12:30:45
A wild guess	Salil	2006-05-25 12:01:07
Question	Salil	2006-05-25 11:24:52
Hint	Jer	2006-05-18 12:16:35
Some thoughts	Leming	2006-05-13 11:03:41

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