Sunday, January 25, 2009

Better than logarithmic ?

You have 8 balls: 7 have the same weight, 1 has a different weight.

Can you identify the heavier ball by using a scale balance just two times?

4 comments:

Peter Jansson said...

I will write the solution on my blog shortly. :-)

codingplayground said...

Try also the more than linear post, I am pretty sure you will like it.

Peter Jansson said...

The solution is now posted.

codingplayground said...

see also http://codingplayground.blogspot.com/2009/03/different-sea-shells.html

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