Why the two pirates would agree when they are getting only one coins each? On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, harshit agrawal <hagrawal.250...@gmail.com>wrote:
> thwy will be shared according to > senior most pirate(5th)=98 > 4th =0 > 3rd =1 > 2nd=0 > 1st =1 > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Anders Ma <xuejiao...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> the coins will be shared the way the oldest pirate proposes. >> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Lavesh Rawat <lavesh.ra...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Pirate Puzzle >> > >> > 5 pirates of different ages have a treasure of 100 gold coins. >> > On their ship, they decide to split the coins using this scheme: >> > The oldest pirate proposes how to share the coins, and all pirates >> remaining >> > will vote for or against it. >> > If 50% or more of the pirates vote for it, then the coins will be shared >> > that way. Otherwise, the pirate proposing the scheme will be thrown >> > overboard, and the process is repeated with the pirates that remain. >> > >> > Assuming that all 5 pirates are intelligent, rational, greedy, and do >> not >> > wish to die, (and are rather good at math for pirates) what will happen? >> > >> > Update Your Answers at : Click Here >> > Solution: >> > Will be updated after 1 day >> > >> > -- >> > >> > "Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it >> and >> > your enemies won’t believe it" . >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Anders >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > Harshit Agrawal > MNNIT Allahabad > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
