This is another beauty of a puzzle from Gurmeet’s puzzle collection at gurmeet.net/puzzles/, thanks Gurmeet!
With two eggs and a building with 100 floors, what is the optimal strategy for finding the lowest floor at which an egg will break when dropped?
As a hint, think of the same problem with only one egg – in this situation, the only option you have is to linearly try dropping the egg from each floor beginning from Floor 1 upwards until it breaks. What can you do differently if there are two eggs?
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