Hint to Riddle #60: 2 Egg Drop, Finding the Highest Floor.
60. There is a building of 100 floors
-If an egg drops from the Nth floor or above it will break.
-If it's dropped from any floor below, it will not break.
You're given 2 eggs.
How do you find N in the minimum number of drops?
-If an egg drops from the Nth floor or above it will break.
-If it's dropped from any floor below, it will not break.
You're given 2 eggs.
How do you find N in the minimum number of drops?
There's an extent to which the best form of clue might be to read the answer page. It covers what you might do if you only had one egg, an infinite supply of eggs, then builds on those two techniques to work out the best model to minimise the maximum number of drops you have to do.I can tell you the best floor to start is the 14th then go to the 27th and 39th if your egg does not break. That might be enough of a pattern for you to workout what's going on.
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