Grind up one of every official state bird, and make it into a hot dog.

Still not enough info. The race is legally a tie if the times are within a certain (I think a millisecond) interval, and with runners this similar in ability, the probability that nobody wins is non-zero.

Gottingen University

Employers love it because it gives them plausible legal cover for two essential freedoms:

If they like you anyway, they can hire you and defend any discrimination claims with the fact that you had the strongest resume.

Whenever they stop liking you, they can expose the lie and fire you on the spot for good cause.

So really, it’s a win-win situation for both you and your prospective employer.

A Braille-to-speech app. Point the camera at the Braille part of a sign, and be told what it says.

Intended user base: Users who can’t read due to sight impairment, can’t read Braille directly either for whatever reason, and couldn’t find a general-purpose OCR app capable of reading the ordinary text.

All the potheads in my class knew exactly how many grams are in an eighth of an ounce.

They don’t deserve my opinion if they’re that irresponsible with the data. I just stopped doing them when I learned that.

Exactly. It’s merely our human preference for those types of files that allow them to work at all.

Regardless which lossless compression algorithm you prefer, it makes most files bigger.

*where “files” includes all bitstrings of a given length, whether or not they’ve ever existed

I did, and you can too. Here’s how: 4/17 is about 4/16 = 1/4 = 0.25, but a little less because 1/16 is greater than 1/17. The error term is about 4/(16^2) or 4/250, so subtract about another 2 hundredths to 0.23.

If I need more than 2 decimals of precision, I’d use the calculator. But by the time I type it in I already know to expect an answer of about 0.23. If the calculator give me anything else, I’ll redo it more carefully.

A good student knows enough basic math to know whether or not their calculator did what they thought it did, or if they mistyped something, had it in the wrong mode, missed order of operations, etc.