6, 2, 5, 5, 4, 5, 6, 4, 7, ?
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42 
Good guess, but no.
Clue 1: its Arduino/electronics related
" The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42"
Yes, I got the reference!
5, to display "9".
Complete world domination.
is it an infinite suite?
Almost correct! 6 to display "9".
Extra question for bonus points:
If displaying the time of day in 24hr format on 4x 7-seg digits, what's the maximum segments ever lit, out of 28, and at what time of day would that occurr?
Is the answer "nuclear Armageddon"?
(They're the launch codes. Don't ask me how I know, or I'll have to be jolly unpleasant to you)
My social insurance number.
For anyone else who hasn't figured it out yet, @jremington figured out what the sequence is, but got the number wrong...
Its the number of lit segments on a 7-seg display, needed to display "0", "1", ... "9"
I display 9 with 5 segments. One can also use 6 segments.
I didn't think of that. Fair enough, you get the solution credit!
Would you also display "6" with only 5 segments?
I use 6 segments for "6", to distinguish it from "b".
Right. And I guess 5 segments for "9" could distinguish that from "g". (although its more important to distinguish "6" and "b" when displaying a value in hex)
For all those out there using septendecimal.
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I recall seeing a study by the U.S. military on various ways of representing numbers using a seven segment display. The intent was to determine which of multiple possible representations would minimize reading errors, if one segment were nonfunctional.
No doubt conclusions of vast importance were reached, but I don't remember any of them.
ah I was exploring a very different direction
can you guess the next one
4, 7, 5, 2, 4, 8, 6, 8, 8, 1, 0,