Re: A good Q???

From: Lynn Kurtz (kurtzDELETE-THIS_at_asu.edu)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:35:22 -0700

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:20:45 -0400, Georg Friedrich <gf@rie.mann>
wrote:

>This is not a psychology question. It is an applied mathematics
>question: You are given an incomplete set of data, and your task is to
>find a mathematical model (in this case a formula or a rule) that
>captures the "essence" of the data set.
>

Would you still make that claim if, as an example, the sequence were:

7, 5, 5, 4, 7, 6, 6, 7, ?

and it would turn out that "answer" was 5 because they are the
numbers of letters in the spelling of the planets from the sun
outward?

--Lynn