series puzzle

From	Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org>
Newsgroups	rec.puzzles
Subject	series puzzle
Date	2026-08-28 00:22 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Complete this sequence:

_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, 3888, 42768, 513216, 667188, 934632,
141948, 2271168, 3869856, 6965748, 132349212, 264698424, ...

Yup, I'd like terms 1-9.

Bonus points for the mathmos: give an expression for how quickly this
series grows: how many digits would you expect the 1000th, 10000th,
100000th, and 1000000th terms to have?

Phil
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series puzzle Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2026-08-28 00:22 +0300
  Re: series puzzle David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> - 2026-08-28 08:56 +0000
  Re: series puzzle richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-08-28 17:54 +0000
  Re: series puzzle richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-08-28 19:39 +0000
    Re: series puzzle richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-08-28 19:49 +0000
      Re: series puzzle David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> - 2026-08-30 08:49 +0000
        Re: series puzzle richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-08-30 11:51 +0000
    Re: series puzzle richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-08-30 12:06 +0000
      Re: series puzzle Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2026-09-01 12:14 +0300
        Re: series puzzle richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-09-01 10:03 +0000
          Re: series puzzle richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-09-05 10:11 +0000
            Re: series puzzle richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-09-05 10:51 +0000
              Re: series puzzle David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> - 2026-09-06 07:52 +0000
    Re: series puzzle Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2026-08-31 22:22 +0300

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