On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:03:22PM +0100, Mr I wrote: >You're not testing the candidates knowledge of maths you're testing their >knowledge of programming.
If the candidate doesn't ask "what happens when n is less than 2", he may be a passable maintenance programmer but he's not someone I'd hire to have any sort of responsibility. >It's equivalent to asking you to write a function ved(n, m) that implements >the 16 sutras* and uses them to return the result. A task that maybe easily >done by many an Indian programmer yet many in this group would struggle >with. Similarly, I'd expect the candidate to ask for more information. R