Friday, January 27, 2012

A REAL Number Puzzle

Can you find the relationship between these numbers?

362, 724, 449, 896, 790, 587, 173, 343, 692, 384

It's very proFOUND. You won't regret investing your TIME into figuring it out!

Let me know when you're all STUCK.

5 comments:

Dad said...

What did you do? Did you randomly alter the last digit? Or is there reason to it? Don't wanna look for a reason if there isn't one.

Anyway, they're the last three digits of twice the previous number, plus a random? number between -3 and +7.

Luke Murphy said...

Sighhh, it's not a real puzzle. I was feeling vindictive after getting stumped by that alphabet puzzle, so I thought I'd make a stupid joke. But Anna says that I'm not very nice and that I owe everyone an apology. Sorry guys....

Dad said...

OK, but you did purposefully multiply by 2 and then alter the last digit, right? This is not just a coincidence.

Luke Murphy said...

Well that was how I made the numbers, but it's not the "relationship"....

Uncle Don. said...

Hey, this one is a pisser. I took all of the numbers to prime factorization and 7, and 181 came up more than once, but I can find no "relationship". Three of the ten are prime, one has two prime factors, three have three prime factors, one has four prime factors and two have eight prime factors.
This looks like something we would get from an accountant in the Obama White House.