!@#!@$ interview question, wtf ..

[Tony Scharf]

its easier to figure out if you think of them as sin wave oscillators
instead of clock hands and imagine their wave shapes overlaid on
eachother.

Tony

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
> The answer is 22.  22 times.  Not 23.  Not 24.  22.
>
> j.
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> On 17/10/2012, at 4:04 PM, Ron West <ronwest at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> That would be my guess too.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 23?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Had a phone interview for a major mobile hardware developer today, would be a nice job doing neat cross-platform stuff in Unity3D .. so I think I'm doing great, answering the C++ questions (virtual destructors, lol!), Android lifecycles, and so on .. then, this one, which I've heard used a million times before, but got wrong 3 times before I finally worked it out:
>>>>
>>>> "How many times a day does the minute and hour hand on a clock, overlap?"
>>>>
>>>> P'shaw!  Why didn't I get it right the first time I tried to figure it out, grr..  ;)
>>>>
>>>> Out of phase, out of time, out of my mind trying to work out the right answer while I can hear the interviewer grinning like a monkey on the other end .. :P
>>>>
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