Re: [algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle
This looked like a variant of the socks problem :) On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Sathaiah Dontula don.sat...@gmail.comwrote: How_to_Ace_the_Brainteaser_Interview.pdf find this book, this has good number of puzzles. Thanks, Sathaiah Dontula On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:01 PM, vishal raja vishal.ge...@gmail.comwrote: take out that one A pill that's there in the jar. take the half of all the four pills, that's how u'll make sure that u've had 1 of 'A' and 1 of 'B' pill. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:52 PM, bittu shashank7andr...@gmail.comwrote: You are on a strict medical regimen that requires you to take two types of pills each day. You must take exactly one A pill and exactly one B pill at the same time. The pills are very expensive, and you don't want to waste any. So you open the bottle of A pills, and tap one out into your hand. Then you open the bottle of B pills and do the same thing -- but you make a mistake, and two B pills come out into your hand with the A pill. But the pills are all exactly identical. There is no way to tell A pills apart from B pills. How can you satisfy your regimen and take exactly one of each pill at the same time, without wasting any pills? Write Algorithm to Solve dis Problem in constant time..isn't it..??? Regard's Shashank Mani Narayan Don't Be Evil U Can Earn While U learn Computer Science Engineering Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra Cell No. +91-9166674831 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comalgogeeks%2bunsubscr...@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 algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comalgogeeks%2bunsubscr...@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 algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comalgogeeks%2bunsubscr...@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 algoge...@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.
[algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle
You are on a strict medical regimen that requires you to take two types of pills each day. You must take exactly one A pill and exactly one B pill at the same time. The pills are very expensive, and you don't want to waste any. So you open the bottle of A pills, and tap one out into your hand. Then you open the bottle of B pills and do the same thing -- but you make a mistake, and two B pills come out into your hand with the A pill. But the pills are all exactly identical. There is no way to tell A pills apart from B pills. How can you satisfy your regimen and take exactly one of each pill at the same time, without wasting any pills? Write Algorithm to Solve dis Problem in O(1) Regard's Shashank Mani Narayan Don't Be Evil U Can Earn While U learn Computer Science Engineering Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra Cell No. +91-9166674831 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@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.
[algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle
You are on a strict medical regimen that requires you to take two types of pills each day. You must take exactly one A pill and exactly one B pill at the same time. The pills are very expensive, and you don't want to waste any. So you open the bottle of A pills, and tap one out into your hand. Then you open the bottle of B pills and do the same thing -- but you make a mistake, and two B pills come out into your hand with the A pill. But the pills are all exactly identical. There is no way to tell A pills apart from B pills. How can you satisfy your regimen and take exactly one of each pill at the same time, without wasting any pills? Write Algorithm to Solve dis Problem in constant time..isn't it..??? Regard's Shashank Mani Narayan Don't Be Evil U Can Earn While U learn Computer Science Engineering Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra Cell No. +91-9166674831 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@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.
Re: [algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle
take out that one A pill that's there in the jar. take the half of all the four pills, that's how u'll make sure that u've had 1 of 'A' and 1 of 'B' pill. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:52 PM, bittu shashank7andr...@gmail.com wrote: You are on a strict medical regimen that requires you to take two types of pills each day. You must take exactly one A pill and exactly one B pill at the same time. The pills are very expensive, and you don't want to waste any. So you open the bottle of A pills, and tap one out into your hand. Then you open the bottle of B pills and do the same thing -- but you make a mistake, and two B pills come out into your hand with the A pill. But the pills are all exactly identical. There is no way to tell A pills apart from B pills. How can you satisfy your regimen and take exactly one of each pill at the same time, without wasting any pills? Write Algorithm to Solve dis Problem in constant time..isn't it..??? Regard's Shashank Mani Narayan Don't Be Evil U Can Earn While U learn Computer Science Engineering Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra Cell No. +91-9166674831 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comalgogeeks%2bunsubscr...@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 algoge...@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.
Re: [algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle
No coding at all. 1) Take out another A pill from the bottle; 2) Split each of the 4 pills into two equal halves, and take one half of echo pill. 3) Collect the other half of the 4 pills for next time. On 2010-9-14 17:22, bittu wrote: You are on a strict medical regimen that requires you to take two types of pills each day. You must take exactly one A pill and exactly one B pill at the same time. The pills are very expensive, and you don't want to waste any. So you open the bottle of A pills, and tap one out into your hand. Then you open the bottle of B pills and do the same thing -- but you make a mistake, and two B pills come out into your hand with the A pill. But the pills are all exactly identical. There is no way to tell A pills apart from B pills. How can you satisfy your regimen and take exactly one of each pill at the same time, without wasting any pills? Write Algorithm to Solve dis Problem in O(1) Regard's Shashank Mani Narayan Don't Be Evil U Can Earn While U learn Computer Science Engineering Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra Cell No. +91-9166674831 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@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.
Re: [algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle
How_to_Ace_the_Brainteaser_Interview.pdf find this book, this has good number of puzzles. Thanks, Sathaiah Dontula On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:01 PM, vishal raja vishal.ge...@gmail.com wrote: take out that one A pill that's there in the jar. take the half of all the four pills, that's how u'll make sure that u've had 1 of 'A' and 1 of 'B' pill. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:52 PM, bittu shashank7andr...@gmail.com wrote: You are on a strict medical regimen that requires you to take two types of pills each day. You must take exactly one A pill and exactly one B pill at the same time. The pills are very expensive, and you don't want to waste any. So you open the bottle of A pills, and tap one out into your hand. Then you open the bottle of B pills and do the same thing -- but you make a mistake, and two B pills come out into your hand with the A pill. But the pills are all exactly identical. There is no way to tell A pills apart from B pills. How can you satisfy your regimen and take exactly one of each pill at the same time, without wasting any pills? Write Algorithm to Solve dis Problem in constant time..isn't it..??? Regard's Shashank Mani Narayan Don't Be Evil U Can Earn While U learn Computer Science Engineering Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra Cell No. +91-9166674831 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comalgogeeks%2bunsubscr...@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 algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comalgogeeks%2bunsubscr...@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 algoge...@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.
