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Question
#3
1
11
21
1211
111221
The next line is
312211.
Each line describes
the line above it.
(Next is 13112221
-- "One three, one one, two twos, two ones.")
(the
first 10-digit prime in e).com
Actually,
it read
"{
first 10-digit prime found in the consecutive digits of e } .com
and
it was on billboards all over the country.
From high-school
math:
The number "e" is
the base of natural logarithms.
It's the limit of
(1 + 1/x)x as x approaches infinity.
e = 2.71828 18284
59045 23536 02874 71352 66249...
(it goes infinitely
on, without systematic repetition: each sequence of ten digits is essentially
random.)
The first ten-digit
number to the right of the decimal point, 7182818284, can't be a prime
number because it ends in an even number and so is divisible by 2, and
possibly other numbers, too. The next ten-digit number, 1828182845,
ends in 5: divisible by, at the least, 5. But eventually, there will
be a prime among them.
For a few weeks after
the appearance of the puzzle "7427466391.com" was the URL for a web site
that invited those who got there to solve another puzzle, and then the
answer to that puzzle was the password to enter yet another website which
was an invitation to send in a CV and further explore the possibility of
working for Google. A person who can solve those puzzles is a person
of interest to Google.
The location of the answer:
2.71828182845904523536028747135266249
7757247093699959574966967627724076630
3535475945713821785251664274274663919
3200305992181741359662904357290033429
5260595630738132328627943490763233829
8807531952510190115738341879307021540
8914993488416750924476146066808226480
0168477411853742345442437107539077744
9920695517027618386062613313845830007
5204493382656029760673711320070932870
9127443747047230696977209310141692836
8190255151086574637721112523897844250
5695369677078544996996794686445490598
7931636889230098793127736178215424999
2295763514822082698951936680331825288
6939849646510582093923982948879332036
2509443117301238197068416140397019837
6793206832823764648042953118023287825
0981945581530175671736133206981125099
The second puzzle:
f (1)=7182818284
f (2)=8182845904
f (3)=8747135266
f (4)=7427466391
f (5)= __________
ANSWER
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