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Dim Sum - Coding efficiency

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A Mathematician's Holiday
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In a restaurant where you can order tasting plates of 10 items, what is the smallest number of plates you can order to identify all 10 items on a menu?

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A Mathematician's Holiday
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Thomas Woolley
William Binzi
Keywords
efficiency
encoding
binary
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 24/10/2014
Duration: 00:09:59

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