Math Riddle

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What are the next numbers in this sequence, 1,2,4,8,16,... ?
Wrong! 1,2,4,8,16,31,57, 99,...

What kind of jaded, jackass jerk'll
ask smugly with a smile and smirkle,
diagonals to think upon,
and an inscribed polygon,
while gazing on a split-up circle.

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Maria Williams

Date: 10/11/2024 2:08:00 AM

I hated geometry in school - but you've put a new twist on it David. Thanks for sharing - Maria

David Crandall
Date: 10/11/2024 9:43:00 AM

Thanks Maria. I like the way riddles sometimes sound like poems.

Suzette Richards

Date: 10/10/2024 8:30:00 PM

I love math, but I must have been absent the day this was discussed. You made me look! Wikipedia has its uses :) Nice Limerick, David.

David Crandall
Date: 10/11/2024 9:40:00 AM

Haha, it's called "Moser's circle problem".

Hilda Greenhough

Date: 10/10/2024 12:12:00 PM

Unfair! You're a math wizard. I still can't figure it out. Today's high school kids figure this one out.

David Crandall
Date: 10/10/2024 12:19:00 PM

haha, I was researching some math puzzles my advanced kids, and I sometimes torment my brothers with them too, so I decided to give it to them in poem form...but don't worry, nobody, including myself, knows what I am talking about!