Maths Teaser: Missing Numbers

X - 14 - 15 - 92 - 653 - 5897 - 9323 - Y - …..

What numbers should replace the X and the Y?

Answer in the comments box below, and again, a reason for your answer please!

2 Responses to “Maths Teaser: Missing Numbers”


  1. 1 Cameron McSorley Sep 26th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Got it…

    the chances were it wasn’t gonna be a sequence, cause of the differences in the numbers, so looking at the number as a whole I saw that it started with 14159…and the only place I can ever remember seeing that number is from having the pi song played about a million times in S1. So I googled for the number of pi, and saw that it fitted in.

    Pretty lucky really…so X=3 and Y=84626.

  2. 2 Euan Doidge Oct 6th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Excellent reasoning - well done!

    As a little explanation to everyone who didn’t get it, each block of numbers is the smallest possible number that is bigger than the block before.

    Next one on the way!

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