22 June 2025

The Aroras

Quite unexpectedly, I woke up this morning to a message from Gagan that they were in Atlanta. Eshan is starting an internship in midtown and they were here to settle him down. Of course, that meant we needed to get together that evening.

I got to know Gagan in Oct 1995 when he finally joined the start up company after threatening to do so for quite some time! The four of us – Bharti, Sharmila and we two – had gotten very close to each other with all those hours of coding together and then going out for lunch or dinner together.

If I remember correctly, they got married one year after we got married. They had their first child exactly one year after we did. And of course, they had their second child also one year after we had ours!

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21 June 2025

Can somebody help me with this simple math problem?

I thought it to be a fairly simple problem. Now I am stuck. I was reading a book that talked about organizational efficiency. It talked about 3 parameters. Each parameters can take the value of 1 thru 10. So, there are 1000 combinations.

It is at this point, I got totally distracted. The quick thought that came to me mind was how many different products can I get? And ever since, the book be darned, I cannot get my mind off it.

So, to repeat, there are three spots. You can fill each one of them with a number 1-10. So, you get 1000 possibilities. If you take the product of those 1000 possibilities, you will get 1000 numbers. But there will be repeats. For example,(1,2,3) (1,3,2) (2,3,1) (2,1,3) (3,2,1) (3,1,2) (1,1,6) (1,6,1) (6,1,1) will all give 6 as the product.

How many distinct products can you have?

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