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Subject: Re: Derivative of x! and actual interviews
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Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 18:19:03 EST
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> > > 	What is the next number in the series
> > > 		2, 3, 5, 7, ...
> > > 
> > 	I sure hope that the next number is 11. Primes, right?
> > (Boy will I feel dumb if this isn't the right answer.)
> 
> My point was that there IS no "right answer".  Any of the following
> could be the next number in the sequence:
> 
> 8	This is a list of the non-perfect positive integers

No it isn't.  Four does not equal one plus two.  Perfect numbers are the sums of their integral divisors.  Six is equal to one plus two plus three.  Twenty-eight is also perfect.

--Steve Blore, man of many dumb ideas and inventor of silly titles