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REALLY important days in history

@Z. Dailey asks a mathematical puzzle Important days in history... and to come! with a series of dates in years 1973, 1978, 1983, 1992, 2005. My puzzle asks the question: What is the previous date in ...
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Sequence puzzle: 3, 9, 27

A twist of the classic sequence game: A friend asked me to find the rule to this sequence: 3, 9, 27. I am allowed to suggest other sequences to test if they follow that (unknown to me) rule, to which ...
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Find the missing element?

I've been trying to solve this for quite some time, can you help me solve it? This puzzle was made by one of my friend's teachers. This is not copyrighted and cannot be found anywhere on the internet. ...
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Longest Fibonacci word

Fibonacci words are defined as $F_0 = a, F_1 = b, F_{n+2} = F_nF_{n+1}$ where $a, b$ are letters. How can you find the longest Fibonacci sub-word in a given string? Try to solve it in linear time ($O(...
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Lucas's interesting cipher

Lucas was fooling around with some letters when he encoded some text into Gsobj lwmtkd sbceugb vfy rgdjb.. Can you figure out the original text he had?
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The smallest number

Some time ago I created a program to generate a table, and printed the first seven rows and columns. Somehow however I forgot to print the headers and the title of the table. I only remember that it ...
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The Mono-Quantum Condrum

You are presented with a locked box, and on its surface, you notice a sequence of peculiar symbols: ⌬ ⌅ ⊙ ⊡ Next to the symbols, there's an inscription: ...
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Odd one's out (sequence)

Once upon a time, there was a curious mathematician named Friedrich. One day, while exploring a new area of mathematics, he stumbled upon an intriguing sequence of numbers: 0, 1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, ...
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Sequence of shapes with lines and dot

This is another puzzle from Lanrt-F IQ test that was posted on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmy-favourite-2-problems-from-lanrt-f-v0-58puclks5a6d1.png%3Fwidth%...
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What's the missing number related to primes?

I would like to draw your attention to this mathematical sequence related to prime numbers I've created and ask what the missing number is. 2, 5, 27, 182, 2310, 27200, ______, 8998400, 223092870, ...
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Can you find the missing letters?

A pattern of letters has had letters 10 through 20 deleted. Your job is to find out what letters should go in spots 10-20. Here is the pattern: a, b, c, d, d, d, f, e, f, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, ...
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An increasing decreasing sequence

In math, there are all kinds of sequences 1545, 1218, 1071, 921, 851, 832, 799, 793, 774, 745, ... is (the start of) such as sequence What is the best number? Note: Even in math things change, so ...
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I need help deciphering what looks like a binary message

I was watching a YouTube video and it’s filled with secret messages and codes. The last two codes were in binary and inserting them into a translator provided correct answers. However, that's not ...
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Find the next term in the given sequence

I created this puzzle. The sequence is as follows: $$320, 71,4632,1E3D, 84B7, 6154, 4F3A44, 38B12, 11F1, BE7E44$$ Find the next element in the above sequence. Hint 1: Hint 2: Hint 3: Hint 4: