[extropy-chat] GOOGLE: innovative recruiting technique

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3916173
> 
> A billboard in Boston says "{the first 10 digit
> prime found in
> consecutive digits of e}.com" The answer to the
> problem is an IP
> address to a site that asks another problem, and so
> on until the smart
> problem solver is asked for his or her resume....
> 
> Apparently we don't have to show our work on these
> problems. Anybody
> want to collaborate? ;)
> 
> To figure out this problem, you first need a list of
> all 10 digit
> primes. Then you take e and make 10 digit chunks of
> it, incremented one
> digit at a time, then compare.

They had this billboard up in Silicon Valley a while
ago.  For something like this, someone else has solved
the problem and posted the solution to the Web - so
you can simply google for the final answer (the page
which asks for your resume).