>> So I grab my pencil and calculator and think to myself...
Too bad you’re not a programmer! Think power of 2 and work backwards. No calculator needed. 8 days, yeah?
( You’re probably an analog engineer or one of those other engineers with *genuine* skills.)
Loved the anecdote! Thanks for sharing it!
It was interesting and vaguely dehumanizing. I had never take a test for a job before. It was one of these newfangled consulting companies they brought in… My job got posted for people to apply for in another part of the company, so, in essence, if I wanted to keep doing the job I have (and have for nearly 20 years) I had to apply for like all the other candidates. Very strange.
Fortunately, my current department where my job is being moved out of was very eager to keep me in the department, so for the time being, I do have a job going forward.
The funniest thing about it was… I didn’t want to move. I really, really like the area I’m working in, and all the people in it. I have a great job, I get to manage myself and how I do my job (my bosses leave me alone because they know I’ll get the job done) and I get to help people all day long. It’s a very stressful job, but it’s extremely rewarding. I’m basically on call all the time, but I’m not primary call now… They only call me if they can’t figure something out.
So, in my heart I didn’t really want the job. I went out to eat at Chinese restaurant a couple weeks before my job interview, and I almost fell out of my chair when I broke open the fortune cookie and read it: “Never apply for a job you don’t really want.”
Was that a sign, or what?
N (2^(x-1) = Y
X = 10 Y = 40
N (1024) = 40
N = 40/1024
N = 0.039
0.039 2^X = 10
10/0.039 = 2^x = 256
x = log 256/ log 2
x = 8
Where N = total number of days and x = original height, and Y equals the current height.
Logarithms are your friend.
X = 40 * log (N-1)/ log 2
Since we know that 10 days got us to 40 in height we have:
X = 40 * log 10 / log 2
Day 8 it is 10.
10 = 40 *
Log(base2)40 =
Log 40/
Log 2
=
ln(40) =