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“The Voice” Season 28 has officially kicked off with coaches Reba McEntire, Niall Horan, Snoop Dogg and Michael Bublé forming their group of talented singers. During the Sept 22 premiere, a new rule ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...