Google recruits eggheads with billboard

[DanL]

Originally Posted by rowe

correct me if im wrong, but i got f(4) -> 99 places into e .

er, you're right.... I was just looking at the column number on my program rather than counting it all... guess I forgot to subtract two for the "2." characters...

so the pattern seems to be:

f(1) -> place value 1
f(2) -> place value 5
f(3) -> place value 23
f(4) -> place value 99

There goes my prime number theory... any other ideas? Anyone think the "Bobsyouruncle" part might have anything to do with the puzzle? Bobsyouruncle.com seems to be a gift card company based in Boston... the website says the phrase is a British phrase coined by 1877 Prime Minister Robert Cecil's nephew... anyone know if its some obscure nerd-culture reference?


[Edit]
On a completely irrelavent note, this post ruined that cool "Posts: 666" underneath my name ;(

[Yan Wang]

The final page is this: http://www.google.com/labjobs/index.html

[edit] As in... logging into linux.org with 'bobsyouruncle' and the solution to f(5) redirects you to the above said page. You can PM me for the solution if you really want it... I put a hint in the post below.[/edit]

[Yan Wang]

Oh yeah... add up the digits.

[DanL]

Originally Posted by Yan Wang

Oh yeah... add up the digits.

Oh.

Well thinking there was a pattern to the occurances was going in the wrong direction.

I did that to one of the numbers, but after I couldn't do anything with the answer, I didn't continue doing that to the rest of them. Would have been a lot better if it was 42, though.

[Ryan M.]

Well, I just saw something on TV about this Google recruiting thing. They said (and I came in at the very end, so I may be wrong) that Google has ended the contest/whatever, and that the solution can be found by a search on Google. Don't know what to search for exactly, so I haven't found it yet.

Did anyone have any luck with this?

[Blacknight]

Quite creative
if you got the job without an interview or anything by just being the first 10 to answer it, it would be really cool

[DanL]

Originally Posted by Ryan Morehart

Well, I just saw something on TV about this Google recruiting thing. They said (and I came in at the very end, so I may be wrong) that Google has ended the contest/whatever, and that the solution can be found by a search on Google. Don't know what to search for exactly, so I haven't found it yet.

Did anyone have any luck with this?

hmm... google still has those billboards hung up around here (Boston). There's one about a block from my campus and two in the Harvard Square T-station. Their new tactics include taking out full-color double-page spreads in my campus newspaper with more number puzzles.