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1000 bottles

You are the ruler of a kingdom and you throw a huge party. You are poisoned when you drink from one of the bottles in the party. There are 1000 bottles for you to choose from and you have 24 hours before you die. You get prisoners to try each one of the bottles to see which one had the poison. If the poison can kill any prisoner in 10 to 20 hours, what is the minimum number of prisoners that you can use?

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wiki/donuts/spring2016.1463004937.txt.gz · Last modified: 2016/05/11 16:15 by mruzinda