Mathematics made difficult
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Read on Hacker NewsThe wonderful (satirical, but mathematically sophisticated) book Mathematics Made Difficult introduces difference tables, and uses them to demonstrate how to compute the next number in the sequence [1,2,4,8,16,…] – that number being, of course, 31. This answer is correct in that it is the next item in the lowest-order polynomial that generates the first five terms. This reveals both the strength and weakness of difference tables (and the flavor of Mathematics Made Difficult).
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