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Old 08-24-2004, 04:25 PM
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^ :lol: I've had a little practice at guessing the meanings of sentences written in unfamiliar languages because of a trivia site I visit occasionally...






I think I've figured out a general formula for the balls-falling-down-walls problem.
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S[b, t] = S[b, t - 1] * (b + 1) + b (t > 0 & b > 1)
S[b, 0] = 0

b = number of balls per trial, t = maximum number of trials required, S = maximum number of stories for which no more than t trials are required
Recursive, but I think it does work.
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