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Solution: Poor Pigs

Understand how to determine the least number of pigs required to identify a poisonous bucket within a given testing time. Learn to calculate testing rounds, evaluate possible outcomes per pig, and use logarithmic calculations to guarantee finding the poison 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 ...