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From: joel@decwrl.UUCP (Joel McCormack)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Derivative of x! and actual interviews
Message-ID: <1337@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 20:28:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 26 20:28:39 1985
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Great interview question, that derivative of x!

I'm not sure what job in computers requires knowing how to do this on the
fly, but it seems if it has any relationship to programming, all you bozos
managed to fool your interviewers into thinking you really knew something
when you didn't.

I couldn't solve it without digging out my old books, either, mind you,
which makes me a bozo, I guess, but I find myself well-qualified as a
programmer. 

So why the original heading?  Did whomever posted the original question
REALLY think it would help separate the programmers from the hackers, or
engineers from tinkerers, or whatever?

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- Joel McCormack {ihnp4 decvax ucbvax allegra}!decwrl!joel
		 joel@decwrl.arpa