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Two false coins (Posted on 2005-03-25)

You have ten coins, but two are fake, and weigh a little less. How many times do you have to use a two arm scale, in order to pick out the two fakes?

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Subject	Author	Date
Answer	K Sengupta	2009-01-09 12:41:16
Solution without knowing if the fakes are equal	Brian Smith	2005-06-02 21:18:14
hmmmmmmm	Taylor	2005-04-09 23:41:08
re: Existential doubt	john	2005-04-06 16:53:47
re: Guess	David	2005-03-28 05:37:24
Guess	David	2005-03-28 05:33:41
Existential doubt	Federico Kereki	2005-03-27 22:29:30
Solution	Eric	2005-03-26 18:31:13
Possibility	Kardo	2005-03-26 07:31:28
re: thoughts	pete	2005-03-26 05:25:35
thoughts	Charlie	2005-03-25 20:30:57

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