$10K for solving a math equation
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$10K for solving a math equation
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Re: $10K for solving a math equation
#2Back of a piece of paper calculation and a hand calculator:
beta = 131376/19147
gamma = - 485151/95735
phi = 271932/95735
mu = 617333/95735
omega = anything, it's zero everywhere (?)
Re: $10K for solving a math equation
#3Re: $10K for solving a math equation
#4Back of a piece of paper calculation and a hand calculator: beta = 131376/19147 gamma = - 485151/95735 phi = 271932/95735 mu = 617333/95735 omega = anything, it's zero everywhere (?)
That probably means the company name is 'omega' or something like 'omega unlimited'.
Re: $10K for solving a math equation
#5The careers link jumps to corda.com. Does this mean the company name has already been solved?
Re: $10K for solving a math equation
#6The careers link jumps to corda.com. Does this mean the company name has already been solved?
Corda is an old company with an old enterprisey XML product.
Josh James bought Corda http://allthingsd.com/20110427/exclusive-whats-former-omnitu...
Looks like he's trying to remake Corda into something useful.
Of note, both Omniture and Corda are based in Utah. When he went shopping, he didn't look far.
It's interesting that he doesn't have any non-compete agreements in place stopping him from competing with the $1.8B analytics company he just sold and resigned from.
Re: $10K for solving a math equation
#7Is there an online OCR that can parse that? I suppose then one could feed it to Wolfram Alpha? I tried Google Docs, but it didn't convert anything at all.
Re: $10K for solving a math equation
#8Four equations, five unknowns, all linear. This isn't particularly difficult, just tedious.
Because there are more unknowns than equations, your solution should itself be an equation expressing one of the unknowns as a linear function of the other four -- omega = a * beta + b * gamma + c * phi + d * mu, where a, b, c, and d are found by chugging away using your favorite linear solution technique (Gaussian elimination, perhaps.)
I leave the actual solution as an exercise for the reader ;)
Re: $10K for solving a math equation
#9Back of a piece of paper calculation and a hand calculator: beta = 131376/19147 gamma = - 485151/95735 phi = 271932/95735 mu = 617333/95735 omega = anything, it's zero everywhere (?)
I don't think you can solve for 5 variables with only 4 equations. Your answer would have to be a relation of variables to each other (beta = n gamma) instead of a number.
Re: $10K for solving a math equation
#10Mu = 231, Phi = 158, Delta = 553, Beta = 68, Omega=0