Comment by blibble
13 hours ago
> How good are you at programming on a whiteboard?
pretty good?
I could certainly do a square root
(given enough time, that one would take me a while)
13 hours ago
> How good are you at programming on a whiteboard?
pretty good?
I could certainly do a square root
(given enough time, that one would take me a while)
With a slide rule you can start from 92200 or so, long division with 9.22 gives 9.31 or so, next guess 9.265 is almost on point, where long division says that's off by 39.6 so the next approximation +19.8 is already 92,669.8... yeah the long divisions suck but I think you could get this one within 10 minutes if the interviewer required you to.
Also, don't take a role that interviews like that unless they work on something with the stakes of Apollo 13, haha
I actually have a slide rule that was my father's in school
great for teaching logarithms