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Bleah - it has exactly the same relationship with actual science as that that '60es movie: Fantastic Voyage[^]. And in that sprit, I would pull a phaser and blow away the blender.
Bonus backup plan: use my communicator to ask Scotty to beam me up
Mircea
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A nickel would have thickness and diameter (which way is "height"?) .... donk interviewer!
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I'd assume thickness, based on a nickel lying on a table.
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An ellipse (circle) has width and height.
A lot of assuming; including the coin lying flat ... on a table, etc.
Reasons why projects fail / come in over budget.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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An ellipse is two-dimensional; a coin is three-dimensional.
A circle has radius, and by extension diameter.
A joke I heard as a kid (early 70s):
Q: How many sides does a circle have?
A: Two; the inside and the outside.
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Like most of the other responders, I would walk out of an interview like that. If I were sufficiently pissed off about it, I might send them an invoice for my 'consulting' time.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I feel I am smart enough to NOT work at Google.
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Nothing. Blender blades are offset from the bottom, so you could safely just chill at the bottom until the blades stop.
raddevus wrote: It rips into the interview & hiring process. It debunks these silly tests/puzzles & it provides a history of how this all got started
Sounds like an interesting read. I've always equated these kinds of interviews to hiring a detective by seeing if they can solve a crossword puzzle in 30 minutes. Sure, you can make a tenuous argument that it's relevant (a crossword requires a wide breadth of knowledge which could help in analyzing situations a detective might run into) but it's never been shown to be a good metric for performance. Much better would be conviction rate, cold case rate, etc.
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I am here and now! (14)
CRUCIVERBALIST
And I know Randor and Greg knew the word: The Lounge[^]
Oh well I'll try an easier one tomorrow - this wasn't supposed to go out for a year or so, but the one I did have for today was wrong, and I didn't notice until I posted it ... so I had to replace it quickly.
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I don't see the connection in your clue !
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Right there and right then, I was indeed enjoying crosswords!
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<pedantmode> The dictionaries don't seem to quite agree; some refer to designer, compiler, creator of crosswords; others explicitly state skilled at solving crosswords; whilst others have just "crossword enthusiasts". It could be argued, depending on the definition you happen to be looking at, that someone setting a crossword is not a cruciverbalist and, while you clearly enjoy solving them, you were not solving one "now".</pedantmode>
Does the CP CCC have a "preferred" dictionary (which might be useful to settle disputed spellings / letter counts...)?
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To the Math enthusiasts here:
Is there a method of calculating the number of digits in 2222!
I have been asked by a student, and am not sure of how to arrive at this. Thanks.
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Easy peasy. Stirling's approximation will give you the answer factorial to a few significant digits, and the decimal exponent exactly.
I'm sure you can do it from there...
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Thanks a lot. I didn't know about Stirling's formula.
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Had to prove it in a uni calculus exam, ca 1965. I did then, but I don't think I could now.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Actually you can "just do it", with a computer anyway. It's a big number, but not so big that a computer really struggles with it. It's fast enough to run it on those online code snippet running websites like ideone.
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The answer is "one".
It's zero, I just checked:
int n = 2222;
int fact = 1;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++)
{
fact *= i;
}
OK, that's because it overflows 32 bits at i = 33, but it's close enough for government work!
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That's the reason for my asking the question.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Reminds me of a "calculator" program I wrote back in the early 90s (it was a DOS program that supported stdin/stdout chaining) that treated numbers as strings and thus had no limit in what it could calculate. It supported the four basic operators plus exponent and factorial.
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Built-in Win 10 calculator did it for me!
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Didn't realize the built in Windows 10 calculator used the bigint library.
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