Answers:Moving Hand Types 144

The blogger app has'nt helped me get back to the weekly updating of MHT still :) Working towards it. Meanwhile, I make this earnest call from fellow quizzers to contribute questions for the 150th post of MHT. Please send out your questions to movinghandtypes@gmail.com

1) What does this peice of code do?
bool is_XYZ_valid(char digits[10]) {
int i, a = 0, b = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
a += digits[i]; // Assumed already converted from ASCII to 0..9
b += a;
}
return b % 11 == 0;
}
Hint:This is not anything to do with Dennis Ritchie.
#Code to validate a right ISBN number for a book.

2) What is special about this web?

#The first spider web in space.

3)Connect?

#Steve jobs- the creator of the apple icon Jonathan Mak, Jobs biological father, his guru Kobub Otogawa.
4)Medical researchers rarely get the mention as much as technologists or other scientists do. I have been really amazed by this person's contribution to genetics. Identify?

Hint: My sister's keeper by Jodi Picoult.
#Yury Verlinksy- Doctor who pioneered prenatal diagnosis for detecting genetic and chromosomal disorders in foetus.
5)Explain the idea behind this doodle?

#French astronomer had emailed Google about the Venus Transit, in which Venus casts a shadow on the sun every 122 years. During the transit, you'll see a black dot moves across the sun.

2 Responses so far.

  1. 1. ISBN vaidation
    2. Web in the space
    3. Steve Jobs
    4. Yury Verlinsky
    5. Transit of Venus

  2. 1.
    2. first spiderweb in space.
    3 stevejobs ... father, monk whosolemnised his wedding, young boy to modify apple icon.
    4 yuri verlinsky.
    5 googles tribute to venus pass.