From: "DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com>
Subject: Re: Arrays and Access types...
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 02:09:30 GMT
Date: 2001-10-27T02:09:30+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uHoC7.5338$sR2.1284292@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AHnC7.1323$655.42331@nntp3.onemain.com
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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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
2001-10-27 2:09 ` DuckE [this message]
2001-10-27 4:23 ` Steven Deller
2001-10-27 18:30 ` Eric G. Miller
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