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Solution: Poor Pigs

Understand how to calculate the minimum number of pigs required to identify a poisonous bucket by analyzing possible outcomes over multiple testing rounds. Learn to apply logarithmic calculations and reasoning about distinguishable states to solve this problem efficiently within given time constraints.

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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 ...