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Medicine muddle - Encoding and Binary

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A Mathematician's Holiday
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Given four bottles with indistinguishable liquid, one of which is a vital medicine, two containers and a test that can be done only once, how can you determine which of the the bottles contain the medicine?

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A Mathematician's Holiday
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Thomas Woolley
William Binzi
Keywords
encoding
binary
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 24/10/2014
Duration: 00:05:28

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