Timeline for The completely generalized poisoned-bottle problem
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| Mar 8, 2016 at 3:39 | comment | added | user88 | You can test for 356243 different bottles of wine by giving the prisoner a different bottle to drink every day; once he dies, the bottle he drank last is the poisoned bottle, and every bottle after that you no longer need to test because you found the one with poison in it. | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 3:26 | comment | added | PStag | No, if I run it with 1 prisoner, and one thousand years, I can test two bottles of wine. Your formula gives 365251 bottles of wine. | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 3:17 | comment | added | user88 | It does. In the cases where prisoners are dead, there are just enough prisoners left to cover all the cases that still need to be considered. | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 3:07 | comment | added | PStag | This does not account for the fact that dead prisoners can't take the poison. | |
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| S Apr 29, 2015 at 16:34 | history | answered | user88 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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