Question

Help John Decipher!

John ask God, to help him with his studies.
God instead gave him sequence of numbers, and said
'Decipher it and Use it, and your grades will improve!'

Help this poor fellow John :P

15,42, 57, 92, 123, 150, 177, 186, 233

What does these sequence of numbers even mean ? :O

Answer 1

i know ganesh can solve it within minutes :P

Answer 2

since it's increasing, I'm going to say look at the sequence in mod 26 and hope for the best lol.

Answer 3

i hope not to end the fun quick

Answer 4

lol, kai did too :P

Answer 5

pretty easy, isn't it :P

Answer 6

Oh really! I was starting to factor them sort of hoping for the exponents on increasing prime factors to represent the words XD

Answer 7

that just went over my head

Answer 8

but its simply mod 26

Answer 9

this is the fastest i have ever closed a question :P

Answer 10

i dint got it yet

Answer 11

do all numbers mod 26
and convert each number to letters :P

Answer 12

What I meant was: \[\Large 2^1, 2^43^{15}5^7,...\] translates to \[\Large a, dog, ...\]

Answer 13

i dont speak english xD sorry

Answer 14

o hahaha!
so much overthinking :P

Answer 15

ok time to solve this though!

Answer 16

yeah show me

Answer 17

15 mod 26 = 15 = O
42 mod 26 = 16 = P
...

Answer 18

give me a second http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2815%2C42%2C+57%2C+92%2C+123%2C+150%2C+177%2C+186%2C+233%29+mod+26

Answer 19

:-|

Answer 20

http://theopenscroll.com/images/symbols/alphabetNumbers.jpg

Answer 21

you were expecting something difficult ? :P

Answer 22

lolol

Answer 23

Ok I got it haha. I should have known after the first couple letters.

Answer 24

is it open study ?

Answer 25

lol in which bible :P

Answer 26

\(\Huge \checkmark \)

Answer 27

in OpenStudy's bible :P

Answer 28

Nice one :)

Answer 29

ok i'll decode something :P

Answer 30

here is a hard one i remember asked by hartnn many years ago

find the next term

26, 24, 3, 22, ?

Answer 31

i still remember the logic :D

Answer 32

i'll let kainui, marki try :)

Answer 33

answer is really at your finger tips.. :P

Answer 34

lol, that was the hint, you revealed too soon :P

Answer 35

zxcvbnm....

Answer 36

**looks at keyboar**

Answer 37

:O

Answer 38

kainui got it again

Answer 39

should have thought of a more encrypted hint lol

Answer 40

noooo ikram got it first lol

Answer 41

I was still looking at the numpad arranged in the 3x3 grid when she typed zxcvbn

Answer 42

3 cheers for marki :D

Answer 43

:3

Answer 44

That's a fun one lol but I think the 26 hinted it off that it was letters. Should have done like qwerty maybe to throw us off maybe lol

Answer 45

lol

Answer 46

create a tougher one :P

Answer 47

Ok I've got one that's related but tougher:

1, 8, 9, 13, 15, ?

Answer 48

My hint is that there is a related sequence that is "perpendicular" to this one:

2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 15, ?

Answer 49

ahimo
gadb
:P

Answer 50

Well kind of, what's gadb? haha.

Answer 51

gadb, first differences lol

Answer 52

really ?

Answer 53

Nope, not the pattern. You might want to consider a different case... ;)

Answer 54

:D