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Pros of working at Google, the most beautiful numbers and signatures in letters sent from iPhone

How cool is it to work at Google? Which number can be called the most beautiful? What can replace the standard signature added to emails sent from iPhone? TJournal has a traditional selection of the most interesting and discussed topics on the Quora site.

Best job in the world

Google is traditionally considered one of the best employers in the world. Numerous ratings compiled by both the press and business representatives place the company in first place for a variety of indicators - from wages to the quality of food in the employee canteen.

Currently, Google employs a total of about 50 thousand people - a staff comparable to the population of Vyshny Volochok or Gelendzhik. One of the Quora users decided to conduct a short survey among current and former employees of the company and find out the pros, cons and pitfalls of what is called “being a Googler.”

Anshul Jain, who worked at Google's Mountain View office, calls his experience working with the IT giant "great." As the programmer writes, a month of work in the California branch of the company was “the best time of his life.”

After a week with your team, you start to feel a little guilty. Guilty for bringing so little benefit to those who gave you the opportunity to have such an amazing experience. At the same time, at first no one puts pressure on you - all the mentors, managers and bosses are trying to show that they believe in you, and that your main task is simply to get used to it as quickly as possible. Anshul Jain, Quora User

According to Jain, the overall atmosphere at Google is very open and all the people working in the office are very dedicated and professional. A nice addition to this is delicious free food, your own bowling alley and billiards, as well as the opportunity to test Google products before they are officially released.

Another user of the site, Vijay Gill, who also previously worked for the company of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, speaks no less enthusiastically about Google. As Gill emphasizes, the best thing about working for Google is the opportunity to be around the most professional people in the industry. On the one hand, Gill writes, this is extremely motivating. On the other hand, for those who are not ready to be “not the coolest” in the team, this can, on the contrary, become a negative factor.

If you're used to being the "biggest fish in the small pond," you'll quickly realize that you're swimming with real sharks. For many, it becomes unbearable to find yourself among such talented people and realize that in fact you are “average” in your field. Vijay Gill, Quora User

Among other positive aspects of working at Google, many highlight the freedom to communicate with colleagues, the general attitude towards achieving results, as well as a positive attitude to try and always take risks to do something new.

At the same time, as Johanna Descoins notes, for some, the open atmosphere at Google seems to be a disadvantage, as it leads to complaints about the lack of order and structure in work.

Google designer Michael Leggett, who works on the interface of the Android operating system, agrees with Descoines' opinion. As Leggett writes, some designers want more trust and more structure in their work. They just don't like being constantly questioned about the need for this or that element in the interface, instead of completely relying on what they do.

Personally, I like this approach. A good designer should not only create a high-quality user interface, but also be able to explain to others why his product is so good. Michael Leggett, Quora User

Beauty secret

One of the strangest places on Quora is the section dedicated to numbers and number theory. Perhaps only there you can find boring and dry discussion threads dedicated to mathematical theories and big data, adjacent to threads about poetry in mathematics and “beauty” tags.

Some questions in the section manage to combine both. So, one of the resource users decided to find out which number could be called the most beautiful. The discussion collected more than 230 replies and a couple of tens of thousands of likes.

Amateur mathematician Ganesh Mohan collected almost seven and a half thousand likes, calling the number 108 the most beautiful in mathematics.

As Mohan explains, 108 is not only a sacred number in many religions and teachings, but also beautiful in its own right - purely mathematically. For example, it is the hyperfactorial of the number 3 (that is, 1x(2x2)x(3x3x3)=108), it expresses the internal angle of a regular pentagon in degrees, the atomic number of Hassius and the average speed of rotation of the Earth in an elliptical orbit around the Sun (in kilometers per hour).

In addition, the number of stitches on a professional American league baseball is exactly 108, and when water freezes, its volume increases by 8 percent (giving a total of 108 percent of its normal volume).

The list of amazing things associated with the number 108 seems to be endless, but not everyone agrees with Ganesh Mohan’s choice. A much more interesting number is proposed as the most beautiful by another mathematics fan of Indian origin - Vijay Kumar, one of the most active users of Quora.

Vijay's choice fell on the number 998001. As Kumar writes, if you divide 1 by 998001, you get a number containing all three-digit numbers from 000 to 999 with the exception of 998. The result looks something like this:

Of course, the discussion was not complete without “standard” answers devoted to the merits of zero, the number “pi” or 42, which became popular thanks to the series of books “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. However, as Stanford University professor Harris B. Daniels notes, many numbers may be much more interesting than they seem at first glance.

Daniels calls the most beautiful number 73, which is the 21st prime number. As the professor writes, the unique beauty here is that its mirror image - the number 37 - is the 12th prime number and, in turn, is a mirror image of the number 21. 21 can be obtained by multiplying 3 by 7, that is, using two digits from the numbers 73 and 37.

Another option, suggested by Quora user Namit Sinha, is the number 1089. To understand its beauty, you should arm yourself with a calculator.

Take any three-digit number in which the digits are not repeated (for example, 568). Write it down. Then write down the number that you get if you arrange the digits in the first number in reverse order (865). Subtract the smaller number from the larger one and write down the result (865-568=297). Now write down the numbers from the result in reverse order (792) and add them with the original number obtained (792+297). You will get 1089. And this will happen every time, with any three-digit number consisting of non-repeating digits. Namit Sinha, Quora User

Sent from iphnoe

According to participants in another discussion on Quora, beauty can sometimes be hidden in much more mundane things and in order to notice it... just check your email. One of the users asked for the most unusual signatures that people use instead of the standard “sent from iPhone” in their replies.

Programmer Chris Eidhof writes that he once came across a signature in one of his letters in the form of a haiku: “I’m writing while on the road, so excuse the brevity. Here's a haiku for you."

Another user, Chris Messina, says he noticed the following signature in emails from a Google employee: “Sent from the depths of my heart.”

As it turns out, original messages apologizing for typos are also popular. For example, captions such as “typos made on iphnoe,” “I write with fat fingers on an iPhone,” or “sent from iPhone, may contain typos.”

Other frequently used signatures include various variations of messages in which the word “iPhone” is replaced with more ridiculous and strange names of gadgets. For example: “Sent from Windows Phone. Yes, someone is using it,” “sent from YOUR iPhone,” “sent from one of my four tablets,” “sent from a Sinclair Z88 , ” and even “sent from a Commodore 64. ”

As another user, Martin Rabl, writes, for letters that are not very serious and not related to work, the signature can be as wild as you like. Ruble himself, for example, sometimes uses such radical options as “sent from Alcatel One Touch Easy” or “written on Sega Dreamcast”.

Sent from Yota Phone,
Victor Stepanov,
TJournal

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