pgrmdave Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 I have a feeling that the numbers are not related by math, but rather by something tangible - like the sequence: 6 6 7 9 8 6 8 - the number of letters in the days of the week, in order. What is throwing me off is the range of the numbers, and the order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 ___OK, some more observations. If order doesn't really matter, the list is no address, date, page number, or any form of ordination. I tried numerologically assigning letters, but there is no 42nd letter. Finally, we have all assumed they are base ten "numbers" & we can only know for sure they are base nine or higher. But then you said math ability isn't necessary. Still stumped; back to Perry Mason show:cup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted March 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 ...But then you said math ability isn't necessary... Be careful, I said its not necessarily necessary...math might be the answer though. Ordering may be significant, or maybe its not!Still stumped; back to Perry Mason show:cup:Who knows? Maybe Perry will jog your brain... Don't give up! Cheers,Buffy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishteacher73 Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 You can take each digit in the sequence and order (1,2,3,4,5,6, [4+2+1=7], 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MortenS Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Luke was an atheist? How'd he get in the New Testament? No, Luke was probably not an atheist...not as far as I know... what I was referring to was that I am an atheist, but I agree that I should have made that clearer... i can't get any meaning out of the verses, but that goes for many more verses of the bible as well for me. They don't seem to be logically related to each other. By the way, there are two books in the old testament that also contains the same verse numbers: Leviticus and Ezekiel. I can find no connection between those verses either, so it is probably just a coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qfwfq Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 what I was referring to was that I am an atheist, but I agree that I should have made that clearer...It seemed clear enough to me! :hyper: Quarterback! I had forgotten that term... sorry... thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 *bump* No more thoughts people? This is a great puzzle! Let the mind wander. I was kinda hoppin' to get some more ideas by Wednesday, when I might actually get an answer... (No, I don't know!). Cheers,Buffy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdth Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 4 = 3x2 -28 = 3x3 -115 = 3x5 -016 = 3x6 -223 = 3x8 -142 = 3x14 -0 2+3 = 56+8 =14This answer may be wrong, but I want to try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C1ay Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 No hints. Not necessarily one right answer. What do these numbers mean? 4 8 15 16 23 42 Numerolgically yours,Buffy Are they the numbers you won the lottery with? Perhaps the ages of family members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Are they the numbers you won the lottery with? Perhaps the ages of family members.In fact they were used to win a lottery, but the question of their significance (which actually appears to have nothing to do with the lottery) is what were trying to figure out here...It may be a numerical relationship as a couple of tries above have shown, or it may be a mapping to something else, although it is supposed to be something that is more than "somebodys' birthdays"... Keep thinking! Cheers,Buffy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qfwfq Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 In fact they were used to win a lottery, but the question of their significanceOh, lottery winning... let me suggest you look up the Neapolitan tradition of these things. In Naples, when people have dreams in which certain odd things happen, they play corresponding numbers according to a traditional lore. Each odd type of thing in a dream is associated with one of the numbers of the game. There might be similar traditions in other places, I dunno, but it's a very strong thing with people of the Naples area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MortenS Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Old Testament: Book of Numbers 4:8-15 and 16:23-42 Still, no obvious connection for me between these verses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim_Lou Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 i got it!doing a 5th power regression regarding those data points, assuming they are in order--1st one is 1, 2nd one is 2...etc.they follow:-.225 n^5 + 4.25 n^4 - 29.375 n^3 + 91.75 n^2 - 122.4n + 60 well, thats one "artificial" solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddog Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 The current value of the US National Debt ? Maddog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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