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No, you had to give out a number.


How about $5B with a 99% confidence interval between $0 and $1 trillion. That's a number.


Sorry, that's not close enough. Can you do better?

(For the record, the person you originally responded to did not share that question with the intention of you actually trying to answer it. The point was the illustrate how ludicrous some of those questions are. You don't have access to any of the information that you mentioned in your response in the interview.)




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