On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Roger Burton West <ro...@firedrake.org>wrote:
> 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. > Again your assumptions are on knowing about the fibonacci sequence. So a candidate that does not know the fibonacci sequence but identifies a possible flaw in the question can only be a maintenance programmer? > > >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. > However under your above reasoning such questions may result in the candidate only being considered for 'maintenance programming' simply because the candidate does not know vedic mathematics. That's foolishness. -- \\U # http://www.flickr.com/photos/66781473@N00/
