Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
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Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
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Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
#2Looks like that number is in base-36 instead of base-10 (decimal). Using http://www.unitconversion.org/numbers/base-10-to-base-36-con... yields number 80113871 as the last 8 digits of the phone number.
Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
#3Looks like that number is in base-36 instead of base-10 (decimal). Using http://www.unitconversion.org/numbers/base-10-to-base-36-con... yields number 80113871 as the last 8 digits of the phone number.
Looks like you are smart enough to work at a startup!
Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
#4Do it by hand and I'm impressed :)
Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
#5Kinda silly given they tell you the base...it'd be cooler if they didn't give you the base and you had to play with it until you had something that fit the phone numbers in the area that the company is in
Also, where's the startups in Brisbane anyway :-/
Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
#6Looks like that number is in base-36 instead of base-10 (decimal). Using http://www.unitconversion.org/numbers/base-10-to-base-36-con... yields number 80113871 as the last 8 digits of the phone number.
You can also type the following in your JS console :)
parseInt('1bp49b', 36)
Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
#7Looks like that number is in base-36 instead of base-10 (decimal). Using http://www.unitconversion.org/numbers/base-10-to-base-36-con... yields number 80113871 as the last 8 digits of the phone number.
You can also type the following in your JS console :) parseInt('1bp49b', 36) "The only problem is it's so tough, no one has managed to crack it yet." is very silly
I agree, "The only problem is it's so tough, no one has managed to crack it yet" is a very silly comment. Anyone who's done high school computing can probably figure this one out :(
Re: Are you smart enough to work at a start-up?
#8Looks like that number is in base-36 instead of base-10 (decimal). Using http://www.unitconversion.org/numbers/base-10-to-base-36-con... yields number 80113871 as the last 8 digits of the phone number.
Looks like you are smart enough to work at a startup!
You too can be like Zuckerberg, by becoming employee #336 at a company rebranded in 2009 as a startup!
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#9Can anyone explain how the conversion works? I don't get how it works even after looking at the conversion table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_36
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#10Can anyone explain how the conversion works? I don't get how it works even after looking at the conversion table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_36
In decimal, when you reach numbers after 9, there's no longer a single symbol you can use to represent the next number. Hence, you represent it as 10, which is one 10 and zero 1s. 11 is one 10 and one 1. This decimal, or base 10 system hence uses only 10 symbols, (0-9). In base 36, you can use additional other symbols, up to 36 different symbols. In this case they are 0-Z, changing to the letters of the alphabet A-Z as the remaining 26 unique symbols needed. Hence A is 11, B is 12 ... Z is 35. 36 (base 10) is then represented as 10 (base 36), one 36 and zero ones. 36^2 = 1296 (base 10) would be represented as 100 (base 36).