Solution: Poor Pigs
Understand how to determine the least number of pigs needed to identify a poisonous bucket within a given timeframe. Learn to use rounds of testing and outcome possibilities to solve the 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 ...