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What is the nth term for 11 27 59 118 311?

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Any number that you like. Given any number at all, it is possible to find a polynomial equation of order 5 that will generate the above five numbers as the first five terms in a sequence as well as the chosen number as the sixth term.

Using the following polynomial of order 4, the next number is 841.

Un = (24x4 - 229x3 + 822x2 - 1127x + 576)/24 for n = 1, 2, 3, 4, ...

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