You have an infinite amount of timers, each is an hour long (they do not have dials on telling you how long they've been going - they just beep when the time is up). You can set it to double speed at any time, but you cannot set it back to normal speed (eg if you set it to double speed at the start it will last 30 minutes.

Using each timer only once, is it possible to time exactly 25 minutes?

If it is, what is the smallest number of timers you need to do this, and the quickest time you can acheive it?

(In reply to re: Got it - but you gotta be fast!!! by Brian Wainscott)

I'd call it an infinite non-repeating binary expansion, since it's the binary numbering system.

Posted by Charlie on 2003-09-18 16:14:02