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Warm/Cool Number Guessing (Posted on 2013-09-30)

Here's another number guessing game:

I randomly pick a number from 1 to 1000. After you make your first guess at the number I will only tell you whether it is warmer (closer) or cooler (farther) or neither, to a 'zero^th guess' of 500.

For successive guesses I will tell your warmer, colder, neither, to the closest of the previous guesses.

What is the minimum number of guesses that would guarantee that you win with an optimal strategy?

What is this strategy?

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Subject	Author	Date
Am I getting warmer?	Steve Herman	2013-10-02 20:04:42
re: How does the game end?	Jer	2013-10-02 13:09:12
How does the game end?	Steve Herman	2013-10-02 09:24:35
re(2): A limit	broll	2013-10-02 02:31:18
re: A limit	Jer	2013-10-01 15:55:08
A limit	broll	2013-10-01 07:05:56

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