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10月底，Google在美国《麻省技术评论》、《LinuxJournal》、《Mensa》、《今日物理》等几本专业杂志上，刊登了一份“Google实验室能力倾向测试”。
　　试卷开头，蛊惑地写着“试试看！把答案寄回Google，你有希望去Google总部参观，并成为我们其中一员”。

我看了这些题目，虽然古怪，但是也不算有困难，有兴趣的人可以做完了邮寄给google公司，也许会得到一个工作机会呢。

注：不要向我要答案。

1.  Solve  this  cryptic  equation,  realizing  of
course  that  values  for  M  and  E  could  be
interchanged.  No  leading  zeros  are  allowed.

WWWDOT  -  GOOGLE  =  DOTCOM

2.  Write  a  haiku  describing  possible  methods
for  predicting  search  traffic  seasonality.

3.
1
1  1
2  1
1  2  1  1
1  1  1  2  2  1

What  is  the  next  line?

4.  You  are  in  a  maze  of  twisty  little  passages,
all  alike.  There  is  a  dusty  laptop  here  with  a
weak  wireless  connection.  There  are  dull,
lifeless  gnomes  strolling  about.  What  dost
thou  do?

A)  Wander  aimlessly,  bumping  into
obstacles  until  you  are  eaten  by  a  grue.
B)  Use  the  laptop  as  a  digging  device  to
tunnel  to  the  next  level.
C)  Play  MPoRPG  until  the  battery  dies
along  with  your  hopes.
D)  Use  the  computer  to  map  the  nodes
of  the  maze  and  discover  an  exit  path.
E)  Email  your  resume  to  Google,  tell  the
lead  gnome  you  quit  and  find  yourself
in  whole  different  world.

5.  What's  broken  with  Unix?
How  would  you  fix  it?

6.  On  your  first  day  at  Google,  you  discover
that  your  cubicle  mate  wrote  the  textbook
you  used  as  a  primary  resource  in  your  first
year  of  graduate  school.  Do  you:

A)  Fawn  obsequiously  and  ask  if  you
can  have  an  autograph.
B)  Sit  perfectly  still  and  use  only  soft
keystrokes  to  avoid  disturbing  her
concentration.
C)  Leave  her  daily  offerings  of  granola
and  English  toffee  from  the  food  bins.

D)  Quote  your  favorite  formula  from  the
textbook  and  explain  how  it's  now
your  mantra.
E)  Show  her  how  example  17b  could
have  been  solved  with  34  fewer  lines
of  code.
7.  Which  of  the  following  expresses  Google□
over-arching  philosophy?

A)  "I'm  feeling  lucky"
B)  "Don't  be  evil"
C)  "Oh,  I  already  fixed  that"
D)  "You  should  never  be  more  than
50  feet  from  food"
E)  All  of  the  above

8.  How  many  different  ways  can  you  color  an
icosahedron  with  one  of  three  colors  on
each  face?

What  colors  would  you  choose?

9.  This  space  left  intentionally  blank.  Please  fill  it
with  something  that  improves  upon  emptiness.

10.On  an  infinite,  two-dimensional,  rectangular
lattice  of  1-ohm  resistors,  what  is  the
resistance  between  two  nodes  that  are  a
knight's  move  away?

11.It's  2  PM  on  a  sunny  Sunday  afternoon  in  the
Bay  Area.  You're  minutes  from  the  Pacific
Ocean,  redwood  forest  hiking  trails  and  world
class  cultural  attractions.  What  do  you  do?

12.In  your  opinion,  what  is  the  most  beautiful
math  equation  ever  derived?

13.  Which  of  the  following  is  NOT  an  actual
interest  group  formed  by  Google  employees?

A.  Women's  basketball
B.  Buffy  fans
C.  Cricketeers
D.  Nobel  winners
E.  Wine  club

14.What  will  be  the  next  great  improvement  in
search  technology?

15.What  is  the  optimal  size  of  a  project  team,
above  which  additional  members  do  not
contribute  productivity  equivalent  to  the
percentage  increase  in  the  staff  size?
A)  1
B)  3
C)  5
D)  11
E)  24

16.Given  a  triangle  ABC,  how  would  you  use  only
a  compass  and  straight  edge  to  find  a  point  P
such  that  triangles  ABP,  ACP  and  BCP  have
equal  perimeters?  (Assume  that  ABC  is
constructed  so  that  a  solution  does  exist.)

17.Consider  a  function  which,  for  a  given  whole
number  n,  returns  the  number  of  ones  required
when  writing  out  all  numbers  between  0  and  n.
For  example,  f(13)=6.  Notice  that  f(1)=1.  What
is  the  next  largest  n  such  that  f(n)=n?

18.What's  the  coolest  hack  you've  ever  written?

19.'Tis  known  in  refined  company,  that  choosing
K  things  out  of  N  can  be  done  in  ways  as
many  as  choosing  N  minus  K  from  N:  I  pick  K,
you  the  remaining.

Find  though  a  cooler  bijection,  where  you  show
a  knack  uncanny,  of  making  your  choices  contain
all  K  of  mine.  Oh,  for  pedantry:  let  K  be  no  more
than  half  N.

20.What  number  comes  next  in  the  sequence:
10,  9,  60,  90,  70,  66,?

A)96
B)  1000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000
C)  Either  of  the  above
D)  None  of  the  above

21.In  29  words  or  fewer,  describe  what  you
would  strive  to  accomplish  if  you  worked
at  Google  Labs.