# What Comes Next?

Which number comes next in the sequence?

2, 7, 19, 47, 83, ___

• leastcommonmultiple.net/lcm-of-14-19-47-and-83 – Richard Apr 19 '15 at 19:16
• Hmm... Yeah... What's Your Point? – Xandawesome Apr 19 '15 at 19:18
• No point, just an observation. – Richard Apr 19 '15 at 19:19
• Oh, well okay then – Xandawesome Apr 19 '15 at 19:20
• They're all primes, that's what you're trying to say, perhaps – leoll2 Apr 19 '15 at 19:28

This looks like a sequence extracted from the series of prime numbers. The next number could be:

139 which is the $34^{th}$ prime number.

The sequence to select prime numbers is $n^2-floor((n-1)/2)$

• It's surprisingly close to the prime numbers at Fibonacci indices - 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 – mdc32 Apr 20 '15 at 1:35
• @mdc32 - Yes, that would also work by using an adjustment function of -2,-1, 0,+2,+2 which would be a little more complex. – Len Apr 20 '15 at 1:45

Assuming the commas are superfluous; the numbers could relate to

This marker on the Neanderthal genome; http://neandertal.ensemblgenomes.org/Homo_sapiens/Location/Marker?r=16:26994784-27194783. The next number would therefore be 16.

• Sorry, that's not it, but I will upvote for the effort. – Xandawesome Apr 19 '15 at 19:24

The Next Number's will be:

139,199

The Reason is:

The Sequence is following +1, +3,+1,+3,......

The Prime number sequence is 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113, 127, 131, 137, 139, 149, 151, 157, 163, 167, 173, 179, 181, 191, 193, 197, 199,..

The logic is as following:

2 after 2 prime numbers, it is 7
7 after 3=>(2+1) prime numbers, it is 19
19 after 6=>(3+3) prime numbers, it is 47
47 after 7=>(6+1) prime numbers, it is 83
83 after 10=>(7+3) prime numbers, it is 139 and so on...

Finally:

2,7,19,47,83,139