You have four coins to sort with a standard balance scale. Their weights are 20g, 21g, 22g and 23g. Prove that there is no strategy which can guarantee sorting the coins with only three weighings.
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re: Information theory way by Charlie)
There is only one grouping (A with D and B with C) which produces an equal weighing. If you used this weighing in your results, you would only use it once. Thus, in every group of 3 (rational) weighings, equal only will appear once, showing that you can only get at most 12 different results.
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Posted by Gamer
on 2007-03-09 11:43:25 |
re(2): Information theory way
