Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
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Author: Michael T. Goodrich
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Chapter 4, Problem 55C
An evil king has n bottles of wine, and a spy has just poisoned one of them. Unfortunately, they do not know which one it is. The poison is very deadly; just one drop diluted even a billion to one will still kill. Even so, it takes a full month for the poison to take effect. Design a scheme for determining exactly which one of the wine bottles was poisoned in just one month’s time while expending O(log n) taste testers.
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