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Wednesday 14 July, 02004

by Matthew Bartlett @ 8:16 am

Google recruitment billboard/math problem

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  1. i cant read it
    is it ‘in consecutive digits of e‘? coz that wouldn’t be any hard at all.

  2. Matthew says:

    Yep that’s right. No problem at all – just scan this page for 10-digit primes. Maybe I will try it in PHP ahah.

    Incidentally, from wikipedia: In the IPO filing for Google, Inc., in 2004, rather than a typical round-number amount of money, the company announced its intention to raise $2,718,281,828, which is, of course, e billion dollars to the nearest integer.

  3. Matthew says:

    I gave up – recompling PHP with the GMP math library seems like too much meta-effort.

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