What is an elephant number afterall?

Question

I am writing this question putting myself at risk of massive down voting. But I still want to risk it as I was really curious and I want to know what's an elephant number.

2 days ago, there was a new user who posted a question on How to tell if a number is an elephant number?

He mentioned that this was asked in his interview.

For those who have seen this question before it was deleted, could you please tell me what is an elephant number??

Answer 1

Questions usually don't get deleted, so I would assume that there is no answer to this. Anecdotally, Google refuses to bring up any programming reference to that phrase in the first two pages.

However I could guess what the answer to the question was:

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Many times while programming you are given incomplete information (in fact in nearly every case).

If I had asked that question during an interview I would expect the interviewee to extract the information they needed from me. In this case it appears that they made a question that was impossible to answer on purpose, that way you know they need to ask you for more details.

Answer 2

I think I might have found out the possible answer to my own question after a long search.

An interview question on finding maximum number of elephants lived: (Click the blue link below) Given the life time of different elephants, find the period when maximum number of elephants lived

I want to share it with all those who are curious like me!

(P.S: I am thankful..till now.. my question has not been voted to -10!)