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08-23-2004, 09:54 PM
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I don't even SEE much in the way of math in your program... :?
 Anyway, it would seem that the number of building heights such that you need a maximum of n one-ball trials to find the minimum height from which the ball will break is equal to 2^n (which isn't terribly surprising). That is, there are 2^(2-1) = 2 building heights that require 2 trials, 2^(3-1) = 4 building heights that require 3 trials, etc. And of course there's the exception of the building just one story tall, where you don't need to run any trials because you know the ball will break if you drop it from the first story since there aren't any other stories to drop from :lol:.
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