[Novalug] Job interview "stuff"

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Fri Dec 18 13:09:45 EST 2009


And the leader of The Village!

JIM

Richard Barnes wrote:
> 2!
> 
> The definition of elegance: So simple, but so powerful!
> The smallest prime!
> The only even prime!
> A factor of half of all integers! (The most of any proper factor!)
> The smallest possible characteristic (or order) for a field!  (Making it 
> the foundation of computation!)
> Foundation of Euclidean geometry (any constructible length comes from a 
> quadratic field extension)
> The number of distinct connected components in an exclamation point!
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Theodore Ruegsegger <gruntly@gmail.com 
> <mailto:gruntly@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>      > On a lighter note, I was asked the "what number would you be?"
>     666
> 
>     Ted
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