From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1f8b4cce7e72b123 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-26 19:09:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttln1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <20011025214647.2788a60b.egm2@jps.net> Subject: Re: Arrays and Access types... X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 02:09:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.45.203 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttln1.wa.home.com 1004148570 24.248.45.203 (Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:09:30 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:09:30 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15294 Date: 2001-10-27T02:09:30+00:00 List-Id: Cool! I figured it out, but it was puzzling. Thanks for the brain teaser. SteveD "Eric G. Miller" 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...