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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in Go

Solution: Poor Pigs

Understand how to determine the minimum number of pigs required to identify a poisonous bucket within a limited time. Explore the mathematical reasoning that uses distinct outcomes each pig can produce over testing rounds to solve this coding problem 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 ...