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What is the pattern of 1 3 7 13 21 31?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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14y ago

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One way of looking at the sequence is to say that the difference between successive numbers increases by two.

The general term in the sequence is given by

tn = n2 - n + 1 for n = 1,2,3,...

or, equivalently, tn = (n3 + 1)/(n+1)

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