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Death
June 30th, 2009, 03:53 PM
This is where you count on only you don't go in 1s, you use the fibonacci sequence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number).

You basically add the previous 2 numbers together to get the next. Thus, you would have, 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 etc. Since you start with 2 1s, then 1+1=2, then 1+2=3, then 2+3=5, then 3+5=8, then 8+5=13 (ectetera) since we are adding the previous 2 numbers. What really interests me is how high we'll get! :cool:

Now, I'll start with the first 2 numbers of the sequence then would each succeeding person please post the next and so on:

1, 1
marty
June 30th, 2009, 10:34 PM
2
i luvs the Fibonacci sequence!
and it's not 5,7,12
it's 5,8,13
NightFighter
June 30th, 2009, 10:41 PM
1,1,2,3
marty
June 30th, 2009, 10:52 PM
five
Death
July 1st, 2009, 12:21 PM
2
i luvs the Fibonacci sequence!
and it's not 5,7,12
it's 5,8,13

Oh yes, my mistake; changed.

8
marty
July 1st, 2009, 05:30 PM
13..!
Mzor203
July 1st, 2009, 07:14 PM
21! :d
marty
July 2nd, 2009, 12:17 AM
34! we need more troops!
Mzor203
July 2nd, 2009, 12:21 AM
55...

w00t
Death
July 2nd, 2009, 03:05 PM
89!!
marty
July 2nd, 2009, 04:51 PM
one hundred and forty four.
Cromm
July 2nd, 2009, 05:10 PM
233 ... you know, a Fibonacci series will have to go into scientific notation by the fourth page... possibly sooner.

Seriously dudes! :P
Death
July 3rd, 2009, 01:18 PM
377! Fibonacci's fun!
marty
July 3rd, 2009, 02:33 PM
610! i luivs da fibunacheeee
Atonement
July 3rd, 2009, 02:35 PM
987.
Death
July 3rd, 2009, 04:49 PM
1597 - this is getting good...
marty
July 3rd, 2009, 06:00 PM
2584! we are getting rather large now!
Death
July 3rd, 2009, 07:55 PM
4181 - we do seem to be getting larger at a speed quicker than I had anticipated - cool!
CestDan
July 3rd, 2009, 07:55 PM
6765!!!!!! Go on..!!!
Cloud
July 3rd, 2009, 07:56 PM
10946
Death
July 3rd, 2009, 07:57 PM
17711
Death
July 3rd, 2009, 07:58 PM
Double post - sorry, ignore.
marty
July 3rd, 2009, 08:29 PM
28675!
this is getting bigger and bigger and mUHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Death
July 4th, 2009, 01:36 AM
^^
Should have been: 28657

46368 - I'm liking this!
Mzor203
July 4th, 2009, 01:38 AM
75025....
Death
July 5th, 2009, 03:35 AM
121393
marty
July 5th, 2009, 06:01 PM
196148!
Cromm
July 6th, 2009, 04:34 PM
317541 - I predict this will end badly. :P
Death
July 7th, 2009, 12:13 PM
513689 - I really want to see how big we get! :yeah:
marty
July 7th, 2009, 05:31 PM
831230. next post goes over a million
Cromm
July 7th, 2009, 06:49 PM
1,344,919 - We'll be into the billions before the end of page three, I think.
marty
July 8th, 2009, 05:46 PM
2,176,149
Cromm
July 8th, 2009, 06:37 PM
3,521,068
Silverfist64
July 8th, 2009, 11:42 PM
5697217. This is gonna be very big number
Cromm
July 9th, 2009, 03:00 AM
9,218,285

Let's see... if we're now averaging 3 decimal places per page, by
page 10 will be using a number I haven't hear since high school: nonillian!

:woah:
marty
July 9th, 2009, 10:35 AM
14,910,502
Cromm
July 9th, 2009, 03:18 PM
24,128,787 - Think we'll get to billions before page three?
Silverfist64
July 9th, 2009, 03:25 PM
39,039,289 ~ We will most definatly get into the billions place soon but most likely not by the begginning of the third page. Maybe one or two posts in.
Cromm
July 9th, 2009, 03:28 PM
63,222,076 - only one post left after this one.
Silverfist64
July 9th, 2009, 03:36 PM
102,261,365 hmm......we have a few more posts left.
Death
July 9th, 2009, 03:43 PM
165,483,441 - okay, I am just amazed! :D
Silverfist64
July 9th, 2009, 03:47 PM
267,744,806 ~ Soon our calculators i know most of you are using will not be able to count that high and we will all have to actually spend time...yes i know, why would ANYONE waste such time.......and do it the old fashioned way. Pencil and paper.
Cromm
July 9th, 2009, 03:54 PM
196148!

DANG IT! .... that was supposed to be 196418 we're all off now. : (

We should have caught that. :(

Okay, here's how it should have went:

Post; Number

27; 196,418
28; 317,811
29; 514,229
30; 832,040
31; 1,346,269
32; 2,178,309
33; 3,524,578
34; 5,702,887
35; 9,227,465
36; 14,930,352
37; 24,157,817
38; 39,088,169
39; 63,245,986
40; 102,334,155


And since this should be post 40: the number is

One hundred and two million, three hundred and thiry-four thousand, one hundred and fifty-five.

:yes:


EDIT: Dang, this thread's moving too fast for me. :(

Well, the next number in this series is 433,228,247

But if we follow the real series, the 43rd number should be 433,494,437

Real series: 165,580,141; 267,914,296; 433,494,437



so... however OP wants to continue.
Silverfist64
July 9th, 2009, 03:58 PM
darn....oh well. random numbers are always fun too.

165,580,141
marty
July 9th, 2009, 04:56 PM
267,914,296

hahah knew there was probably a mistake somewhere!
Silverfist64
July 9th, 2009, 07:21 PM
433,494,437 ~ two more posts and we will enter the billions
Death
July 12th, 2009, 06:18 PM
701,408,733 - even if there is a slight error, with numbers this large, I don't suppose it really matter since it's fun!
marty
July 12th, 2009, 07:19 PM
1,134,903,170
Death
July 14th, 2009, 02:51 AM
1,836,311,903 - wow, billions already!
YourFriend
July 14th, 2009, 10:42 AM
2,971,215,073
Death
July 14th, 2009, 02:03 PM
4,807,526,976 - I wonder how long it'll be before we hit trillions!?
marty
July 15th, 2009, 05:32 PM
7,778,742,049
Death
July 18th, 2009, 05:18 PM
12,586,269,025 - I'd love to see a trillion!
marty
July 19th, 2009, 09:28 PM
22,365,011,074
Death
July 20th, 2009, 06:21 AM
^^

Should have been 20,365,011,074.

12,586,269,025 + 20,365,011,074 = 32,951,280,099
Cromm
July 29th, 2009, 01:32 PM
53,316,291,173 hehe.... I'm sorta cheating.

I'm using an Excell spreadsheet and a formula so I know all the numbers up to # 200 .... after number 80 the end digits will always be zeros... so it's possible we could just add the numbers before the zeros and then just say "and seven zeros".... or something like that. :P

....course, you could all use the speadsheet instead of the calculator .... or pen and paper, but I prefer my geekier meathods. :)

:D
marty
July 29th, 2009, 06:06 PM
86,267,571,272
Holding On*
July 30th, 2009, 06:48 AM
139, 583, 862, 445
JackOfClubs
July 30th, 2009, 07:13 AM
225,851,433,717

two hundred twenty five billion, eight hundred fifty one million, four hundred thirty three thousand, seven hundred and seventeen. :D
Holding On*
July 30th, 2009, 07:38 AM
365,325,296,262
Cromm
July 30th, 2009, 06:00 PM
591,176,729,979 - two more posts to a trillion! .... does anyone know what comes after nonillian?
Death
July 30th, 2009, 06:09 PM
53,316,291,173 hehe.... I'm sorta cheating.

I don't think so - I'm using my computer calculator to do this which is no better.

956,502,026,241 - just one before a trillion!
marty
July 31st, 2009, 05:51 PM
60,074,174,956,220
Death
August 2nd, 2009, 08:21 PM
60,074,174,956,220

I swear it should have been (judging by my computer calculator): 1,547,678,756,220

Anyway:

2,504,180,782,461
djunlogical
August 3rd, 2009, 05:28 AM
4 051 859 528 681 (edit: number corrected after wrong add up)
Death
August 3rd, 2009, 09:48 AM
6,556,040,311,145
Silverfist64
August 3rd, 2009, 09:53 AM
10,607,899,839,826 (big number)
Death
August 3rd, 2009, 10:02 AM
17,163,940,150,971 - I wonder how long before we hit a quadrillion (thousand trillion or 10^15 or a 1 plus 16 zeros)?
Silverfist64
August 3rd, 2009, 10:11 AM
27,771,840,590,797 ~ Obviously not long. Im guessing on the fifth page somewhere.
Death
August 3rd, 2009, 10:33 AM
44,935,780,741,768 - this is indeed growing quite large!
Silverfist64
August 3rd, 2009, 10:39 AM
72,707,621,332,565 hmm...indeed it is.
Death
August 4th, 2009, 06:49 PM
117,643,402,074,333
Silverfist64
August 4th, 2009, 08:05 PM
190,351,023,406,898. wow big numbers.
Cromm
August 6th, 2009, 04:14 PM
307,994,425,481,231 - Well, we're into the TRILLIONS now.
djunlogical
August 12th, 2009, 04:21 PM
498 345 448 888 129 Nearly half a Zillion!!! woot
Cromm
August 13th, 2009, 01:04 AM
806 339 874 369 360 - (that number what nearly half a trillion)

Next number will be greater than the US's anual defense budget! ... but just barely. ;)