Max of 14 drops required
Consider the floor from which egg needs to be dropped as F
F = 0, x =14
do
{
F = F + x
drop first egg from floor F
x--
}while(first egg doesnt break);
F = F - x-1;
do
{
F++
drop second egg from floor F
}while(second egg doesnt break);
return F
On Jul 6, 10:05 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
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