<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: HyperGeometricOne thing I know is that when it's time for prayer, people in Saudi leave their shops open and unattended (including diamond stores, jewelery etc.) and there is no possibility of theft. May be we should try this in NYCThis is because they will cut an arm i...

QuoteOriginally posted by: NorthernJohnWhat a bizarre thing to say. Saudi is one hell of a lot safer than many western countries, such as the US.Wait till they catch you reading your copy of the Bible in a public place.

Welcome to the Mid-East... People there have not gotten over the colonial hangover. I personally would never want to work in societies which are not free and fair, regardless of how good the loot is.

Folks:I have accepted an offer in a prop trading group in a bulge-bracket firm.Thanks a lot for the advise and the words of wisdom.

mhughes, you are right. The probability is not 7/36 but 6/36. Your solution is correct...

mhughes:Your equation should be:p = 1/36 + 7/9 p + 7/36 qq = 1/36 + 7/9 p + 0Edit:As mhughes pointed out, there is an error in my equation above. It shoud be 6/36 and 29/36 as he correctly pointed out.

nice mhughes.f(1) = n => C_i < n; So (n+1) can be chosen as the base. Again it requires you to be able to adapt the second argument based on the result of 1. The second argument can be any number greater than n.

Regarding the coeffecients of a polynomial, are they positive integral or are they bounded to be single digit non-negative numbers (0-9) or any other number for that matter?

<t>mogliC:Network; Network; Network. IIT brand name is strong and can open doors. Where did you finish in your class at IIT?The lesson I learnt was that the name counts a lot more than the professor if you are changing fields. I had the option of going to Princeton for my PhD but chose Illinois sinc...

Why dont folks use voice recognition systems? I have heard that their accuracy rates are in the high 90s%.

<t>I think it is 2 * SUM ( i = 0 to n -1) (n+i) C iThere can be cases where the losing team wins anything from 0 to n-1 games. So the number of games is between n & 2n - 1. In each situation either of the teams can win so there is a factor of 2. Then it just becomes a combination of two groups o...

Yes sevvost I got it during an interview!!And you are right 7 should be enough for the binary search. As an engineer I tend to be conservative and add an extra 1; better be wrong and use up one extra resource, rather than having the code crash due to garbage memory access.

Man, I was asked this question on Tuesday evening!!!Sevvost, I think the number is 15 (1 + 14; (14)(15)/2 = 105) if you consider 0 as a valid solution.If you have 100 then you could use bijection (binary search); should be able to do it in 8...

<r>TimberWolf was a package for laying out cells on an IC developed at Berkeley by Carl Sechen. The cells could be quite basic (like an and gate) or bigger macro blocks (like a 16 bit adder). During placement the goal is to create solutions where the:- Total Chip area is minimized by reducing interc...

<t>Assuming nicotine is absorbed via diffusion in the lungs. IIRC, the rate of diffusion is a function of the difference in the concentrations across the boundary (the concentration gradient). The amount of nicotine absorbed is the integral over time of th diffusion rate. Let us assume that the time...