Comments on: Understanding LOST sequence of numbers

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:01:05 +0000

This is ridiculous…the writers of Lost are really this clever? Come on…. its a show written by Hollywood not by mathematicians.

By: Lost by design — AdamBanks.com

Lost by design — AdamBanks.com — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:06:26 +0000

[...] Wait, I can hear something. It sounds like a sequence of numbers, going [...]

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:00:26 +0000

you have a three in your triangle that should be negative.

By: Arne

Arne — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:18:39 +0000

Where does the “Shaw-Basho-Polynomial” come from? I guess the coefficients have been chosen carefully so that the matrix multiplication results in the LOST numbers.

By: denisjtorresg

denisjtorresg — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:37:55 +0000

I tried what you said, and before you change the post everything looked good, I found a little problem with a minus, but all explanations were great!, you should republish the post as before.

Here is what I tested:

http://denisjtorresg.blogspot.com/2009/12/un-articulo-mas-sobre-los-numeros-de.html

By: Jason E. [Visitor]

Jason E. [Visitor] — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:44:00 +0000

According to this:

http://www.dougshaw.com/lost/

the next number is 0

By: bill [Visitor]

bill [Visitor] — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:03:00 +0000

so you randomly got the lost numbers. wheres the connections??

By: Pigno [Visitor]

Pigno [Visitor] — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:31:00 +0000

A better explanation here:

http://www.dougshaw.com/lost/

By: sc [Visitor]

sc [Visitor] — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:09:00 +0000

i dont understand why/how you alternated the signs! is that 3 supposed to be negative in the diagonal?

i.e.-1,-2,-3,-4,-5

By: Peter [Visitor]

Peter [Visitor] — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:20:00 +0000

Yo crazy dude!
Why are you always coming up with stuff like that. I hurts my brain!