Re: [algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle

2010-09-15 Thread jaladhi dave
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

[algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle

2010-09-14 Thread bittu
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.

[algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle

2010-09-14 Thread bittu
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.

Re: [algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle

2010-09-14 Thread vishal raja
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

Re: [algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle

2010-09-14 Thread Terence
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

Re: [algogeeks] Yahoo!!!! Puzzle

2010-09-14 Thread Sathaiah Dontula
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