There are (at least) two ways to approach this, and based on nothing at all but conjecture and speculation, I think people with ASD will approach it differently than neurotypical people.
I think neurotypical people will double the current number and add one. So 2x7+1 = 15, for example.
I think people with ASD will intuitively "see" that each number is one less than a power of 2. The sequence then simply becomes 2^N-1.
So, did you just "feel" it? Or did you go recursive and solve it computationally? Or some other means? Let me know!
Just FWIW, they're mathematically equivalent:
Let's assume you can solve this. I think HOW you solve it says a lot about how your brain works.
First, figure it out so you have your answer, then check the thread for what it all means.
@VisionaryVoid Your „deep-space cosmic event“ is sensationalist shit talk. This machine was seriously misdesigned. This is not how you would even design a voting machine. It requires a recountable verifiable audit trail, not just a counter in RAM and a final printout. Better use paper ballot.
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In 2003, a small local election in Schaerbeek, Belgium, was thrown into total chaos. A relatively obscure candidate named Maria Vindevoghel suddenly received an impossible surge of support at the polls.
Officials quickly realized something was mathematically broken. Vindevoghel had somehow secured exactly 4,096 more votes than there were actual registered voters in her entire precinct.
Investigators immediately assumed it was a sophisticated cyberattack or rampant voter fraud. But when computer scientists painstakingly analyzed the voting machine's internal memory, they found the culprit wasn't human at all.
A single, high-energy cosmic ray, likely born from an exploding star deep in the universe, had struck the machine's microchip at the exact wrong microsecond. This microscopic impact flipped a single binary bit from a zero to a one.
Because binary code scales exponentially, that specific flipped bit in the 13th position instantly generated precisely 4,096 phantom votes. It remains the only verified instance in history of a deep-space cosmic event directly altering a democratic election.
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@geekedout__ Let‘s try redesigning these functions:
space - insert a space on the right of the cursor and move all text to the right
backspace - insert a space left of the cursor, that‘s what the old space was
delete - delete what is currently selected