Bram Cohen puzzle
Bram Cohen (the BitTorrent guy) posted one of the programming challenges he apparently uses in job interview screenings:
What is the exponent of the largest power of two whose base seven representation doesn’t contain three zeros in a row?
It’s implied that the solution should involve some coding. Here’s the original entry; here’s my take on a solution. The comments on Bram’s entry make interesting reading (it’s not quite what you might expect), but have a go at a solution first if you’re going to 
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May 1st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I have solved several of these puzzles and posted the answers on
a blog:
http://comet.homeunix.com/archive/3.html