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From: "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps-nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Arrays and Access types...
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:08:15 -0700
Date: 2001-10-26T18:08:15-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AHnC7.1323$655.42331@nntp3.onemain.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20011025214647.2788a60b.egm2@jps.net

Thanks all for your comments, suggestions.

For the curious, I was writing a problem that simulated a human solving
the following problem:

Question.  If you have 200 coins and 199 of them weigh the same amount
and 1 is lighter than the others. Using a two pan balancing scale, 
how can you identify the lighter coin in 5 weighings or less?

Don't get me started on how you could possibly have all of this
information a priori and *not* know which coin was lighter...



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-27  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-26  4:46 Arrays and Access types Eric G. Miller
2001-10-26  5:39 ` James Rogers
2001-10-26  6:45   ` Eric G. Miller
2001-10-26 16:40     ` James Rogers
2001-10-26  6:14 ` tmoran
2001-10-26 14:26 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-26 19:31 ` chris.danx
2001-10-26 23:32 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-27  1:08 ` Eric G. Miller [this message]
2001-10-27  2:09   ` DuckE
2001-10-27  4:23     ` Steven Deller
2001-10-27 18:30       ` Eric G. Miller
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