Re: A game strategy.

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

CB!

Naughty you -- you gave it away.

If I'm not in error, there are, at least, two algorithms for determining in
two trials (weighings).

An eleven pan balance would do it in one trial.

bc

P.s. I presume you are a poet?

Clarence Bennett wrote:

> > Riddle (classic):
> > You are given 12 coins which are superficially identical.
> > But only 11 are really identical;  the 12th is slightly
> > heavier or lighter.  You are also given an old-fashioned
> > two-pan balance,
>
> When I first saw this many years ago, the word two was not included in the
> description of the balance, so I built a triangular balance and solved it
> in two weighings.
>
> Clarence P. Bennett
> bennett@oakland.edu
> Oakland University Physics
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> Rochester, MI   48309
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