How to detect a counterfeit coin: Adaptive versus non-adaptive solutions

DOI10.1016/S0020-0190(02)00483-0zbMath1173.68816OpenAlexW1976006631MaRDI QIDQ1007588

Axel Born, Cor A. J. Hurkens, Gerhard J. Woeginger

Publication date: 23 March 2009

Published in: Information Processing Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0020-0190(02)00483-0

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmsmathematical puzzlenon-adaptive algorithmweighing problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonnumerical algorithms (68W05)

Cites Work

• On various versions of the defective coin problem
• 1931. The problem of the pennies

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