Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!houxm!hou2g!vdb From: vdb@hou2g.UUCP (R.VANDERBEI) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Interview question Message-ID: <405@hou2g.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 13:23:47 EST Article-I.D.: hou2g.405 Posted: Fri Feb 22 13:23:47 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Feb-85 06:54:20 EST References: <317@ihu1m.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 7 The problem suggested is quite easy and is a good test of an applicants analytical abilities. The only prerequisites are knowledge of the definitions of the integral and the derivative. The person who claimed that such a quiz is discriminatory reminds me of the old adage: ignorance is arrogant.