In a magical series, each term is twice the previous one, starting from 1. What is the 8th term of this series?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about how each term grows exponentially.
Answer
128
Explanation
The series is 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, so the 8th term is 128.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 128.
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