By: vacapinta
Unlike specifications for new products... Good point! In that case, my answer, since they didnt say *different* colors is: 1. Only one way. 2. Green, Green, Green
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DevilsAdvocate: <monty python> Q. How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face? A. What do you mean? Regular or Rhombic? </monty python>
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Either way, badly phrased Unlike specifications for new products, which are always phrased in a way that there is no question how to work on them.
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Oh, and for most beautiful equation, I nominate one by Ramanujan, possibly this expansion of the Phi though there are some more beautiful and outlandish ones out there.
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DevilsAdvocate, they may have meant coloring in the technical sense (adjacent faces do not share a color) in which case the answer is 144. Either way, badly phrased. -1 points for Google labs.
View ArticleBy: thomcatspike
I dont know what answer they're looking for for #11, That was one of the few questions I could answer w/o much thinking. When deciding where to go, Google the places mentioned in the question and look...
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What comment/point of mine are you addressing with this though? fvw, Ignore my last comment as it was incomplete(look at the misspellings) and was not meant to be posted(hit enter while answering the...
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8. How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face? 320 = 3486784401, for some random icosahedron. Some smaller number, which is much more difficult to figure...
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I dont know what answer they're looking for for #11, but I can guess what someone like Niels Bohr or Robert Oppenheimer or William Siri would have answered.
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Thomcatspike: Yes, that's probably a wise strategy. What comment/point of mine are you addressing with this though?
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fvw, a person w/o a degree who can ace the test may benifit from it when being looked at for the position. My company gives a standard apptitude test and also a test which questions covers basic...
View ArticleBy: aws17576
I want to see whatever answer for #19 fits comfortably in the space provided. In 20 minutes, I wasn't able to come up with an explicit answer at all, though existence is a consequence of the "Marriage...
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True, but that doesn't mean that should I not be the best of the best (however you choose to define that), I'd prefer to work for google along with the best of the best, to only the best of the best...
View ArticleBy: psychotic_venom
fvw: Not to be a jerk or anything, but the type of people that would actually work for Google would want more people to come and take the test, just so that they would know they were the best. That's...
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Is this one of those things where you're just supposed to be creative and entertain them? I like tests where you get a box to doodle in.
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Hmm? I should imagine so; They're the ones who've posted it, check the link URL. (Though others have put it online before)
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fvw; Google probably already knows that the test is being viewed on-line.
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Robin Ward (a non-member lurker) just mailed me with the reason for 10100 being one of the options: It is ofcourse a Googol.
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skyline -- Whenever I answered sequence or analogy questions in similar smart-ass, overly-complicated ways, my teachers would respond, "That's why you're supposed to pick the best answer, not...
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I've been working on the GLAT too (please don't link this too much, I'd like to keep my miniscule chance of getting employed by google from getting any more miniscule), and while the one gleuschk found...
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