You have 12 coins. These are the most valuable coins, ever. Don't ask what's in them. However, one of them is impure by just a tiny bit. However, you do have The World's Best Scale to help you. TWBS can sense impurity to a bajillionth of a gram and will exxagurate the difference between two objects of different mass so that one that is even slightly off in weight will be shown by a big change.
However, the guy who owns it is a total prick, and you only have enough money to use it THREE times.
Furthermore, you don't know if the impurity is a lighter or heavier substance- meaning that if one coin is heavier than the other, you know nothing.
Come up with a straightforward strategy to find the coin.
ONE guy solved this in our Physics class.
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The gun katas. Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element. The gun kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increase to lethal proficiency makes the master of the gun katas an adversary not to be taken lightly.
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2004-10-31, 10:19 AM
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