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Medicine muddle - Encoding and Binary
Given four bottles with indistinguishable liquid, one of which is a vital medicine, two containers and a test that can be done only once, how can you determine which of the the bottles contain the medicine?
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Medicine muddle - Encoding and Binary is an episode from A Mathematician's Holiday by Oxford University. Given four bottles with indistinguishable liquid, one of which is a vital medicine, two containers and a test that can be done only onc...
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Published Oct 24, 2014, 5:28 long, audio available.
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Given four bottles with indistinguishable liquid, one of which is a vital medicine, two containers and a test that can be done only once, how can you determine which of the the bottles contain the medicine?
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