Proggit challenge: Find a number N which, when Googled, yields N results

[iamelgringo]

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/77o4g/proggit_chalenge_find_a_number_n_which_when/

[tr4nslator]

Is this cheating?

http://www.google.com/search?q=00000000000000000000000000000...

[waleedka → tr4nslator]

It's hacking.

[jrockway]

Or don't do this, and:

  1) Don't get IP blocked from Google

  2) Get some real work done instead

[nostrademons → jrockway]

Somebody on the thread did it, via shell script, and didn't get IP blocked. Point #2 is a good one, though.

[davidw → jrockway]

Yeah, I prefer "make something people want".

[khafra]

1) generate random 10000<n<100000

2) check number of results-- n > results?

3) submit comment to a recent reddit post, which will be updated on Google within 10 seconds, containing n repeated (n - results) times.

[zandorg]

I once submitted (to NTK) this hilarious search-and-replace-typo where someone replaced Bill in Billionare with Gates to make Gatesionare.

Sinisterly, I can't find it on Google anymore. Odd.

[Allocator2008]

Wow, I justed took 20 minutes of my life looking into that, and you know something, I won't get those 20 minutes back.

Here is the answer tho in roman numeral form where * means "times" :

DVL * M