SOLUTION: what's the next number after 3 4 7 13 14 17 23

Question 650830: what's the next number after 3 4 7 13 14 17 23
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It is all a question of reading the mind of whoever invented the problem.
When reading someone else's scribbles, there is room for alternate interpretations.
I believe that, like beauty, the answer to this problem is in the eye of the beholder.
The answer in my eye is ,
assuming that the logic is each number being more than the number three positions before it, as in
3 4 7 13 14 17 23 24 27 33 34 37 43 44 47
However, there could be more creative answers.
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