You have 1000 bottles of wine. Exactly one of the bottles contains a deadly poison, but you don't know which one. The killing time of the poison varies from person to person, but death is imminent in at most $t$ hours after ingestion. You are allowed to use 10 notorious criminals as poison fodder (they are on death row). How much time do you need to correctly determine the poison poisoned bottle?
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You have 1000 bottles of wine. Exactly one of the bottles contains a deadly poison, but you don't know which one. The killing time of the poison varies from person to person, but death is imminent in at most $t$ hours after ingestion. You are allowed to use 10 notorious criminals as poison fodder (they are on death row). How much time do you need to correctly determine the poison bottle? |
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