Tricky Google interview question

Question

A friend of mine is interviewing for a job. One of the interview questions got me thinking, just wanted some feedback.

There are 2 non-negative integers: i and j. Gi

Answer 1

I know I am likely wrong but there is a very simple heuristic here since it does not involve many numbers like 2,3,5. We know that for any i,j 2^i * 5^j next sequence would be 2^(i-2) * 5^(j+1). Being a google q it must have a simple solution.

def func(i, j):
 print i, j, (2**i)*(5**j)

imax=i=2
j=0
print "i", "j", "(2**i)*(5**j)"

for k in range(20):
    func(i,j)
    j=j+1; i=i-2
    if(i<0):
        i = imax = imax+1
        j=0

This produces output as :

i j (2**i)*(5**j)
2 0 4
0 1 5
3 0 8
1 1 10
4 0 16
2 1 20
0 2 25
5 0 32
3 1 40
1 2 50
6 0 64
4 1 80
2 2 100
0 3 125
7 0 128
5 1 160
3 2 200
1 3 250
8 0 256
6 1 320