the hardest puzzle ever

[yazmeya]

A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may

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[binaryanimal]

Помню на четверть-финале ACM Programming Contest таких много было подобных задачек =)

[yazmeya]

это кагбе пародия на загадки, которые любят давать на собеседованиях в конторах типа Microsoft, Google, Apple, и т.д.
на самом деле, умение решать головоломки не является признаком хорошего кодера.

[krace]

42!, i.e. 1.40500612 × 1051  :)

[yazmeya]

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