Eggs can never break the building. So dropping the eggs won't break the building - whether you drop them from 1st floor or 100th floor.
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Sriganesh Krishnan <2448...@gmail.com>wrote: > i think this puzzle follows arithmetic progression...i'm not sure > though...does anybody have a clean explanation for this? > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:35 PM, shiv narayan > <narayan.shiv...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> * You are given 2 eggs. >> * You have access to a 100-storey building. >> * Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped >> from the first >> floor or may not even break if dropped from 100 th floor.Both eggs are >> identical. >> >> * You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-storey building an >> egg can be >> dropped without breaking. >> * Now the question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed >> to break 2 >> eggs in the process >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Tushar Bindal Computer Engineering Delhi College of Engineering Mob: +919818442705 E-Mail : tushicom...@gmail.com Website: www.jugadengg.com -- 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.
