whr s(S+1)/2 must be nearly equal to 100 can uexplain.. On Jul 6, 10:48 pm, TIRU REDDY <[email protected]> wrote: > s(s+1)/2 must be close to 100. > The best possible number is 14. > > try from 14th floor. > next from 14+13th floor. > next from 14+13+12th floor. > .... > > Worest case number of attempts = 14. > Best Regards, > T V Thirumala Reddy > Engineer, Qualcomm India Private Ltd. > 1540C30, 15th Floor, Building #9, Mindspace, Hitech city, Madhapur, > Hyderabad-81. > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Sriganesh Krishnan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > @tiru and @aseem: explanation pls...! > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:11 PM, TIRU REDDY <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 14 > > >> On 6 Jul 2011 22:35, "shiv narayan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> * You are given 2 eggs. > >> * You have access to a 100-storey building. > >> * Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped > >> from the first > >> floor or may not even break if dropped from 100 th floor.Both eggs are > >> identical. > > >> * You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-storey building an > >> egg can be > >> dropped without breaking. > >> * Now the question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed > >> to break 2 > >> eggs in the process > > >> -- > >> 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.
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