[extropy-chat] GOOGLE: innovative recruiting technique

[Patrick Wilken]

My quick search only came up with this:

http://216.239.59.57/

which gives a 502 error to Google...

best, patrick


On 16 Sep 2004, at 18:28, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> --- 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).
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