This one is all about prime factors, and common multiples.

As someone who went through this competition, you do pick up a lot of tricks and patterns when you are practicing for this. That being said, these kids are really, really good and I don’t really know how to answer it either other than maybe start with the LCM (60) and guess and test?

He managed to hit a planet with that margin for error?

I’ve composed a poem/insane person rant using all of Drew’s all caps words:

This is actually something I’m doing now that I’m job searching. I took different aspects of a job and gave them monetary values to help rank my current job vs. prospects.

As an example - I’m in a high-wall cube environment now. Making a lateral move would be $0, moving to an office would be about $2,000 and moving…

Abbott and Costello went through a number of drafts before arriving at their now-classic bit.

Paying down debt requires a lot of patience. Or a winning lottery ticket.

... 243 feet down, a 310 foot long submarine. Which actually broke loose on the first raising attempt and got 30 feet worth of hull IN THE AIR.

This was a really interesting read. I never really stopped to think about what street performers are up to behind the scenes.

Ahhh, gotcha.

If you bought it new, it’s less than a year old and you have taken it in 3+ times, I’d consider it.

Hey Lehto, I live in MI have a TDI...take my case?

My first introduction was in high school, but that was the very bare-bones example of a phone book that you will run into online. When I got to work I ended up with the one project team using Access instead of Excel. From there I had to kind of build my own knowledge.

Thanks.

I am saying that it is an industry standard (in this industry and many others). As for how OK it is - depends on how big the markup is.

You are definitely right that learning access pays off. I have been starting to try to pick it up, but still find myself doing things in Excel because I don’t have the Access skills yet, but do have a lot of Excel knowledge.

We have trouble overcoming that at work. Everyone learns Excel, and thus finds a way to do what they need in Excel. When they get used to this, though, they are less likely to spend the time to learn the (often easier) way to do it in Access.

I know what they do, and can use them (sparingly). It’s just difficult for me to find a reason to use them over Access. It seems to be trying to fit database functionality in a spreadsheet. In that case, just use a database.