Solution: Poor Pigs
Understand how to calculate the fewest pigs required to identify a poisonous bucket within a limited testing time. Explore the use of rounds of testing and outcome possibilities to optimize the number of pigs needed, applying mathematical reasoning and logarithms for an efficient solution.
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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 ...