Number sequence
Don't you just hate it when someone sends you one of those "find the next number in the sequence" problems? Mostly they're relatively simple to workout, but somebody sent me one recently that has stumped me. The sequence is...
1, 2, 3, 6, 7,8, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32
While trying to figure this out I found the
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. This (as the title suggests) is a huge, searchable database containing 116943 (at the time of writing) number sequences.
Unfortunately none of those listed in this database matched, and I'm still in the dark as to what the solution is. I've tried everything from polynomials to matching the present and missing numbers to Morse code. Can anyone answer this before my brain explodes?
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