Comments on My SysAd Blog -- Unix: 142857 is an Interesting Number

No, I didnt get the job. That was the only questio...

2010-06-18T21:38:44.927-07:00

No, I didnt get the job. That was the only question in the interview that I didnt answer correctly.

Incidentally, after spreading the word to other sysadmins, I am not the only person to go through this with this same group at google.

I wish someone before me had spread the word. Oh, well....

Cubefeed
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cubefeed, That's interesting that Google asked yo...

2010-06-18T21:18:31.974-07:00

cubefeed,

That's interesting that Google asked you about that particular question during the interview.

At any rate, did you get the job?

That number sticks out to me. That was the only qu...

2010-06-18T17:48:00.843-07:00

That number sticks out to me. That was the only question that I failed in a technical interview for a job with google. I could not figure out for the life of me why the interviewer asked me that question. It sort of makes sense based on the job that I was going to be doing or perhaps it was the endeavor of a very sick interviewer?

Anyway, your posting did explain things better.

cubefeed
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disregard my comment, my calculator lied to me whe...

2009-07-30T04:55:12.237-07:00

disregard my comment, my calculator lied to me when it stated it could to decimals in any base *sigh*

i was going through divisions of 360 and got curio...

2009-07-27T06:12:46.190-07:00

i was going through divisions of 360 and got curious about 360/7=51.(428571)

since dividing 360 by any other number from 1 to 10 besides 7, i started wondering if this could be related to a "higher 'dimensional' oddity"

since string theory uses 10+16 dimensions for ((3+1)+6)+16 i ran a few quick caluclations using base-16 instead of base-10, and lo and behold:

360(DEC)=168(HEX)
168/7=33

22(DEC)=16(HEX)
16/7=3

probably just us humans picking the "wrong" base (10) to describe a reality which is of 10+16=26 dimension

360(DEC)=DM(base-26)
DM/7=1P

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2009-07-16T14:01:26.732-07:00

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WOW.. ! very interesting ! this is a magic number ...

2009-06-24T04:55:46.588-07:00

WOW.. ! very interesting ! this is a magic number !)
Thanks..

Cool! interesting stuff!

2009-06-23T01:27:05.439-07:00

Cool! interesting stuff!

1/7 = 0.142857 (repeating) Which "explains" some o...

2009-06-19T10:07:01.622-07:00

1/7 = 0.142857 (repeating)
Which "explains" some of the interesting facets of that number. It's still fascinating that 1/7 would be so cyclical, though.

You're right bogdan, math is very fascinating and ...

2009-06-18T05:09:42.782-07:00

You're right bogdan, math is very fascinating and pure

Really nice numbers. But maths have fascinating th...

2009-06-18T05:05:30.343-07:00

Really nice numbers. But maths have fascinating things if you search for them.