Posted by Peter Ceresole on August 24, 2003 at 09:57:41 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Question for the Scientists. posted by John Nichols on August 23, 2003 at 17:23:47:
It's an amazingly counter-intuitive number, isn't it? Last night, at one in the morning, I went "Unghhhh- two!" But this morning I actually thought about it...
Strange
Microsoft uses this question to evaluate job candidates:
Well that's okay, I never wanted to live in Redmond anyway.
Here's another one in the same mould. Stretch a string around the equator. Assuming the world really is spherical, with a circumference at the equator of 40,000 kms, and the string is everywhere in contact with the ground, how much longer would you have to make it so that it stands evenly one metre clear of the ground, all the way round?