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[TuxDave]

Ok... this one I heard from a friend at CMU, and supposedly there's many solutions to this. So try to come up with one that works.

There's a whole pile of devices that detect if things work or not. But the problem is, you don't know which one works or not. It's given that less than half of them don't work. You job is to find one that you KNOW will work.

note: If the device doesn't work, and it tries to see if another device works or not, it could give off a correct or incorrect evaluation. And it's SOOO broken that it'll keep giving the response that'll screw up your logic the most.

<edit> I hope I worded this right....

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Ok... this one I heard from a friend at CMU, and supposedly there's many solutions to this. So try to come up with one that works.

There's a whole pile of devices that detect if things work or not. But the problem is, you don't know which one works or not. It's given that less than half of them don't work. You job is to find one that you KNOW will work.

note: If the device doesn't work, and it tries to see if another device works or not, it could give off a correct or incorrect evaluation. And it's SOOO broken that it'll keep giving the response that'll screw up your logic the most.

<edit> I hope I worded this right....

So we've got devices to detect if the other devices work? And the device detecting the devices may or may not work? Is that right?

If broken device A says that device B is broken, will it ALWAYS say that device B is broken? Or might it say device B works next time I test device B with device A?

 

[Zim Hosein]

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[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Ok... this one I heard from a friend at CMU, and supposedly there's many solutions to this. So try to come up with one that works.

There's a whole pile of devices that detect if things work or not. But the problem is, you don't know which one works or not. It's given that less than half of them don't work. You job is to find one that you KNOW will work.

note: If the device doesn't work, and it tries to see if another device works or not, it could give off a correct or incorrect evaluation. And it's SOOO broken that it'll keep giving the response that'll screw up your logic the most.

<edit> I hope I worded this right....

So we've got devices to detect if the other devices work? And the device detecting the devices may or may not work? Is that right?

If broken device A says that device B is broken, will it ALWAYS say that device B is broken? Or might it say device B works next time I test device B with device A?

oops... hahaha.. forgot about this thread. It'll be as consistant as it can. So if the device said it was broken the first time, it'll say it's broken for all the rest of the time...