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5 questions linked to/from What to do about question that ask about the next term in the sequence?
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What's wrong with asking for the next term in a sequence? [duplicate]
I have the first few terms of a sequence, something like
$3,5,7,9,11,\ldots$ or
$1,2,4,7,\ldots$ or
$2,4,8,16,32,\ldots$ or
$1,6,3,4,45,186,\ldots$
I want to know what the next term is, or maybe ...
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Inspired by this question on meta.cstheory.SE. The post at meta.Tex.SE is quite impressive.
We often leave generic comments to OP and answer posters such as "if this is a homework, please add a tag," ...
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Guess the next number/guess the relation etc
I think it should be added to the FAQ that "guess the next number of the sequence of numbers" and similar are off-topic since this type of thread is posted quite often.
A few examples:
Find the ...
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Should Migration options in off topic include mathematics educators?
It seems to me that questions like this one belong to Mathematics Educators and there will be occasional others where migrating like this will be the best thing to do.
There are various threads on ...
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Orphan answer (worth saving?) to deleted question
A few minutes ago I started answering one of those "how does this sequence continue" question to which the standard answer is, essentially, "any way you like". The question was deleted while I was ...