Desculpem me, claramente não é um problema de Fermi, estou com eles na
cabeça. Perdão.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Francisco Barreto
<fcostabarr...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife.
> Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband
> has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a
> law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her
> husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village
> would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and
> announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?
>
> Minha resposta:
>  After the queen announces that at least one man has been unfaithful to
> his wife, all women that weren't cheated by that man that was guaranteed to
> be unfaithful will immediately know it wasn't their husbands. So, one wife
> must be left and hence, she will know it can only be her husband the proved
> unfaithful one. Since we know that all men in the village has been
> unfaithful, a cascade of similar events will happen until no man is left
> alive. And that's sad.
>
> Não sei se consegui provar minha intuição, e se ela está certa em primeiro
> lugar. 100 viúvas sobrando ao fim, isto seria triste.
>
> --
> Sinceramente,
> Francisco Costa D. Barreto
>
>


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