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Dim Sum - Coding efficiency
In a restaurant where you can order tasting plates of 10 items, what is the smallest number of plates you can order to identify all 10 items on a menu?
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Dim Sum - Coding efficiency is an episode from A Mathematician's Holiday by Oxford University. In a restaurant where you can order tasting plates of 10 items, what is the smallest number of plates you can order to identify all 10 items on a...
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Published Oct 24, 2014, 9:59 long, audio available.
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