Say, could someone help me figure out this sequence's pattern? It was a question on a thing I had, so I assume theres a pattern, but I couldn't figure it out

3,8,23,60,203

I was given 3,8,23,60 and I was supposed to guess the next term

Would this help: math.stackexchange.com/questions/1443145/…

@dydxx Sadly, it is 60, not 68

@VishalGupta Hello and welcome to my realm!

@BrevanEllefsen :P

Thanks :). How does it work here? I am clueless

@VishalGupta You start by saying hi, explain stuff about yourself if you want, and join in

we do math here btw

and occasionally politics, moral judgements, etc.

I see. but the description says "room for totally random people to hang"

Yes

oh i see the tag of recreational math

But I have the recreational-mathematics

:D

Got you there! XD

Nice, so we just talk like civilized people about math. Thats a great idea

So can one also ask serious math questions?

Lol

Civilized...

Yes, of course!

@VishalGupta ASK ALREADY XD

great :). I'll come back when I have one. Right now, just exploring; sorry to have whet your appetite and then not provide a beverage :p

@VishalGupta No problem :p

We do small chat as well, if you are interested

like small talk in real life? was never good at that xD

XD

waiting for the Spring eagerly

whereabouts are you? or are personal questions off the table?

Uh, I am in America?

are you telling me or asking me xD. I am in Europe btw

Telling you... I think...

I am in New Zealand

Oh wow, never been there @dydxx

I've never been to Europe haha

You are welcome :). There's ton to visit (aside from Mathematicians )

haha, true

@SimplyBeautifulArt I posted an MSE-Meta question addressing your tag inquiry

@SimplyBeautifulArt meta.math.stackexchange.com/q/25916/269764

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SUMMONING HAS OCCURRED

THE DEMON HAS AWOKEN

Want a cookie?

heck yes

gives him a cookie

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consumes the cookie

nom nom nom we eat all the cookies

Anyways, I'm not good with programming and stuff, so all I can do is look

:-/

:/ I'm decent at programming, and can even knock out some LaTeX, but MathJax is some weird conglomerate of MathML and Markdown and some LaTeX libraries ported to Javascript

yeah lol

So serious question: when you are studying material on your own (for example, in a textbook) do you actually do the exercises or do you just skim through them and keep reading?

I usually skim, then try to do

I find that I enjoy reading through worked examples, and might even do a couple myself, but I almost never actually do most of the examples

lol

because the Abstract Algebra text I bought is 2/3 examples, and about half of the examples are actually new and important material

so about 1/3 of the material requires me to do the examples

Well, I've never asked a question on how to do a particular contour integral, now have I?

which makes it harder to quickly pick up things :P

Lol

I'm not sure what you meant with that last comment

the one before "Lol"

I mean, I agree you haven't