Friday, March 03, 2006

Take a Guess

What does this progression of numbers represent?

19,27,29,30,31,33,38,47,54,54

Hint #1:

It's very common, but also unique. Rather, it is a unique instance of a common progression.
It is NOT mathematical.

9 comments:

Dad said...

No takers, eh? Sissies. Hint #2- Think Global Warming acting locally.

Bwahahaha.

Dad said...

Final hint-

Think weather.

Mom said...

Hey, no fair, I didn't get a chance to read hint #1 before hint #2 appeared. Meanwhile, last night I had a dream that I figured this out. In my dream, it had something to do with people lined up according to age. I thought my idea was brilliant (in the dream) but I didn't want to ruin the game for the rest of you, so all I posted on the blog was "I know it -- now everybody else, it's your turn to figure it out!" Then I woke up and was crushed to realize that my idea made no sense.

Now I am thinking that this progression must have something to do with temperatures or snow totals or days of snow in a given winter. I'd guess high temps on a given day over a period of years, but since it goes up and Dad's the one who posted it with a crack about global warming, that can't be it.

Anonymous said...

I had a dream that there was a hurricane while we were at school, and Luke ran away and came back with books on how to scuba dive and he was set on leaving the school during the hurricane to go scuba diving. I just cried and screamed YOU WILL DIE LUKE WHYYYY ARE YOU DOING THISS WHYYY. it was really sad.

Dad said...

He must have been on a sugar high.

Anonymous said...

Apparently no one knows. What's the answer!?

Dad said...

The answer, sugar, is that the numbers are the 10 day forecast high temperatures for Earlville, NY. Going up.

Today the numbers are: 29,29,30,40,44,57,60,53,46,44

Caleb said...

Ah, yet another example of global warming! Temperatures over the next week will be getting definitively hotter.

Never too late to take another look at Kyoto!

Spongy Penguin said...

Darn. I was going to say that they were digits somewhere in pi, but I guess I missed it.