Are You A Math Geek??

If you think IIM(A) is most tricky to enter, Google devised the most technical way to apply for a job, I guess Donald trump should look out for changes in apprentice.

A 50-foot-wide beige banners hanging from the ceiling of the Harvard Square subway station. But you may need a Massachusetts Institute of Technology degree to have the foggiest idea what they mean.

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''[First 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e].com," is all the banners say.

It took a few seconds for commuters to realize there's a math question being asked here, there company differentiated classes from masses

First you have to know that E -- the base of the natural logarithm -- begins 2.718281828 and goes on forever. Now identify the first string of 10 digits after the decimal that is a number evenly divisible only by itself and 1. If you don't have a supercomputer handy, the answer is 7427466391.

However, anyone who solves the puzzle (by combining the first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e with ''.com" and entering it into a Web browser) discovers that the website named for the solution, http://www.7427466391.com/, only gives you directions that leads to another web site with a string of solutions to four variables and a blank after the fifth (another vexing math problem). Solve that, and you get to an internal Google page that praises ''your big, magnificent brain" and invites you to apply for a job.

PS: ''Advertising is all about targeting who you want to get. If they're trying to get very intelligent mathematicians, that's the way to go."