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mailor  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving

I was of the same opinion. But I was worse than you. I believed that the rule was "each nth number is the nth power of the first one, with n=[1,2,3]".

Hence, 2^1, 2^2=4, 2^3=8.

I tried several. 3,9,27; 5;25;125; 128; 16384; 2097152. All yeses.

Then I tried 1,1,1. I got a "no". But the amount of positive evidence toward my hypothesis was overwhelming. I thought that was a bug.