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How many drops you need to make? You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process.

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You are given 2 eggs.
-> You have access to a 100-storey building.
-> Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100 th floor.Both eggs are identical.
-> You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-storey building an egg can be dropped without breaking.
-> Now the question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process

posted Jun 8, 2018 by Varuna Magar

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At maximum 14 drops.
Can't take the credit: http://datagenetics.com/blog/july22012/index.html

answer Jun 9, 2018 by Jcm



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