Not necessarily. Whatever the senior pirate proposes will have to be accepted by pirate 4th and 2nd (assuming 5th is senior most) otherwise pirate 1st gets everything. So it is oldest pirate's call. He can I guess take it all.
Shuaib http://twitter.com/ShuaibKhan http://www.bytehood.com/ On 21-Apr-2011, at 2:51 PM, durgaprasad k <[email protected]> wrote: > @vaibhav : if they dont agree for 1 gold icon they will be thrown out. so > they will accept the 1 gold coin to stay on . > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:10 PM, vaibhav agrawal <[email protected]> wrote: > Why the two pirates would agree when they are getting only one coins each? > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, harshit agrawal <[email protected]> > wrote: > thwy will be shared according to > senior most pirate(5th)=98 > 4th =0 > 3rd =1 > 2nd=0 > 1st =1 > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Anders Ma <[email protected]> wrote: > the coins will be shared the way the oldest pirate proposes. > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Lavesh Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pirate Puzzle > > > > 5 pirates of different ages have a treasure of 100 gold coins. > > On their ship, they decide to split the coins using this scheme: > > The oldest pirate proposes how to share the coins, and all pirates remaining > > will vote for or against it. > > If 50% or more of the pirates vote for it, then the coins will be shared > > that way. Otherwise, the pirate proposing the scheme will be thrown > > overboard, and the process is repeated with the pirates that remain. > > > > Assuming that all 5 pirates are intelligent, rational, greedy, and do not > > wish to die, (and are rather good at math for pirates) what will happen? > > > > Update Your Answers at : Click Here > > Solution: > > Will be updated after 1 day > > > > -- > > > > "Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and > > your enemies won’t believe it" . > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > Regards > Anders > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > Harshit Agrawal > MNNIT Allahabad > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
