RE: Arrays and Access types...

From: "Steven Deller" <deller@smsail.com>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: RE: Arrays and Access types...
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:23:48 -0400
Date: 2001-10-27T00:23:48-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1004156869.28743.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uHoC7.5338$sR2.1284292@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com>

3**5 > 200 -- no problem to solve at all :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org 
> [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of DuckE
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 10:10 PM
> To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
> Subject: Re: Arrays and Access types...
> 
> 
> Cool!
> I figured it out, but it was puzzling.
> Thanks for the brain teaser.
> 
> SteveD
> 
> 
> "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps-nospam.net> wrote in message 
news:AHnC7.1323$655.42331@nntp3.onemain.com...
> 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...

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