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Re:9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_ by req2 on Thursday November 05, 2009 @11:51PM (#925448)
Difference tables don't operate on a "pattern"- they simply take the difference of the two terms above.
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Re:9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_ by jacobolus on Friday November 06, 2009 @03:37AM (#925693)
No, but the point is that using a difference table to find the "next term" in a sequence is rather stupid if the difference table doesn't terminate until you run out of terms.... the implication of that is that you have a sequence which cannot actually be fully described via that difference table.
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