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I've made a good living as a programmer for a decade now, and I'm not afraid to say I don't even understand the question. It's a silly question unless it's for
by benjaminwootton 13y ago
I've made a good living as a programmer for a decade now, and I'm not afraid to say I don't even understand the question.
It's a silly question unless it's for a quantitative role.
- duiker101 13y agoThank god I am not alone...
- agibsonccc 13y agoEdit: Redacted: left for consistency. Had him confused there. A closed form expression is basically just a mathematical function used to model a potentially infinite series. Take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-form_expression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-form_expression Look at the first and second examples. You'll see the big summation sign (for loop: i to infinite) and then an explicit function. If you want to think, what the heck is this math crap used for: think about a more basic everyday concept like recursion. How do you know it will terminate?
- pmelendez 13y agoI don't think he is talking about the closed form expression (at least I know what a closed-form is and still couldn't understand the question). There was no information whatsoever about what changes on each iteration... if nothing changes then the answer would be a constant of whatever rabbits were at the beginning... and that doesn't sound about right :/
- agibsonccc 13y agoBah got ya.
- tjbiddle 13y agoGood to hear. I'm working as a Jr. Software Engineer now, and I don't consider mathematics one of my strong points. Do many positions actually expect people to know these kinds of questions? I'd crash and burn here.