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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: A sequence problem (*NOT A SPOILER*)
Message-ID: <526@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 22:06:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  7 22:06:32 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 08:10:14 EST
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Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP ( Crawford)
Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Summary: 

Regarding the sequence in Richard Harter's puzzle (the answer to which
I will not give):

>      For our American readers: What is the next integer in the sequence
> given below?  What is the ordering principle?
> 
>             8
> 8,000,000,000
> 8,000,000,008
> 8,000,000,800
> 8,000,000,808
> 8,000,000,818
> 8,000,000,880
> 8,000,000,888
> 8,000,000,885
> ?????????????

The ordering rule describes an infinite sequence, yet it has a LAST
element.  What is the last element??
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