Timeline for What's wrong with asking for the next term in a sequence? [duplicate]
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| May 12, 2018 at 11:28 | history | closed | amWhy Watson CommunityBot Surb José Carlos Santos | Duplicate of What to do about question that ask about the next term in the sequence? | |
| May 11, 2018 at 21:13 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 11, 2018 at 20:31 | comment | added | stewbasic | @martinsleziak the existing meta questions are aimed at the community. I wanted something aimed at the author of such questions to explain the problem with their question and how to improve it. The monster group example in my answer was inspired by David Speyer's answer. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 17:25 | comment | added | Arnaud Mortier | It's simply not a mathematical question. The fact that the next term could be anything isn't unhelpful, it's a mathematical answer. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 8:34 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | And probably I should have also mentioned this post: Guess the next number/guess the relation etc, Especially since there is a very insightful answer by David Speyer. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 7:19 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | This type of questions has been discussed here several times in the past. For example: What to do about question that ask about the next term in the sequence? (and other posts lined there) or Number-guessing, sum of all natural numbers and hot trend questions (and other posts linked there). | |
| May 11, 2018 at 7:03 | history | migrated | from math.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| May 8, 2018 at 21:42 | comment | added | stewbasic | @pipe FWIW the wording was inspired by this question. My intention was to link to rather than mark duplicates, because specific questions may get useful answers and/or be improved. So I'm not fussed whether it goes here or on meta. | |
| May 8, 2018 at 10:53 | answer | added | user14972 | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 8, 2018 at 10:19 | comment | added | duhaime | Damn those elementary school intelligence questions | |
| May 8, 2018 at 9:52 | comment | added | pipe | I know you want to have a canonical question to link duplicates, but as this is worded, it absolutely belongs on meta. | |
| May 8, 2018 at 9:52 | comment | added | CiaPan | See what OEIS finds e.g. for 3,5,7,9,11 or for 1,2,4,7 to find out any such question may have multiple, distinct, well-grounded answers. Which means such problems are ill-posed. | |
| May 8, 2018 at 7:04 | answer | added | Mark Bennet | timeline score: 11 | |
| S May 8, 2018 at 6:46 | answer | added | stewbasic | timeline score: 43 | |
| S May 8, 2018 at 6:46 | history | asked | stewbasic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |