Timeline for Math puzzles for dinner
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| Jul 29, 2010 at 17:50 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | There's a question about generalizing to k poisoned bottles at MU: math.stackexchange.com/questions/639/… | |
| Jul 14, 2010 at 15:29 | comment | added | Eric Tressler | I think the first step is to dash to the store for 2 dozen bottles of wine. | |
| Jun 27, 2010 at 9:12 | comment | added | Yaakov Baruch | Since the death penalty is occasionally dealt to innocent people, I would use 10 notorious politicians. | |
| Jun 26, 2010 at 16:07 | comment | added | Tony Huynh | Oh, I see. The poison is so deadly that even if someone drinks any amount (no matter how small) of the poisoned wine they will die in at most t hours. | |
| Jun 25, 2010 at 22:07 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | To Tony Huynh: I think the question is not how long it takes for the drinker to die, but what amount of the drink is enough for that. | |
| Jun 24, 2010 at 19:14 | comment | added | Tony Huynh | It's fatal, but you don't know exactly how long it will take for each person. It's safe to assume that it will take roughly t hours for each person, but not exactly t hours. Otherwise you could determine the poison bottle in slightly over t hours if you had a precise enough stop watch. | |
| Jun 24, 2010 at 19:06 | history | edited | Tony Huynh | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jun 24, 2010 at 17:44 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | How deadly is the poison? | |
| Jun 24, 2010 at 15:33 | history | answered | Tony Huynh | CC BY-SA 2.5 |