Sample Google Interview

[lu_hawk]

Who could have been a Google millionaire?

1. How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?

2. On an infinite, two-dimensional rectangular lattice of 1-ohm resistors, what is the resistance between two nodes that are a knight's move away?

3. Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality

4. What is the most beautiful math equation ever derived?

[ddollevoet]

This is cool!

Answers in white:

<font color="white">
1. 58,130,055

2. (8-pi)/2pi

3. MathWorld's search engine
seemed slowed this May. Undergrads
prepping for finals.

4. There are many honorable mentions. They include:
1. Archimedes' recurrence formula
2. Euler formula
3. Euler-Mascheroni constant
4. Riemann hypothesis
5. Gaussian integral
6. Ramanujan's prime product formula
7. Zeta-regularized product
8. Mandelbrot set recursion
9. BBP formula
10. Cauchy integral formula </font>

[daryn]

we'll get back to you.

(you didn't get the job)

[ddollevoet]

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