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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in C#

Solution: Poor Pigs

Explore how to determine the minimum number of pigs required to identify a poisonous bucket within a limited testing period. Understand the strategy of calculating distinguishable outcomes through iterative testing rounds and applying logarithmic calculations to solve this mathematical coding challenge efficiently.

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Statement

You have buckets buckets of liquid, exactly one of which is poisonous. Your goal is to identify the poisonous bucket by feeding liquid to some number of pigs and observing whether they survive or die. You have a total of minutesToTest minutes to determine which bucket contains the poison.

The experiment proceeds in rounds according to the following rules:

  • Select any number of live ...