《Cracking the Coding Interview》——第6章：智力题——题目1

2014-03-19 06:40

题目：有20瓶药，其中19瓶装的都是1.0克的药片，只有1瓶装了1.1克的药。给你一个能称出具体克数的电子秤，只允许你称一次，怎么找出那瓶不一样的？

解法：如果药片管够，从每个瓶子里取出数量各不相同的药片，根据质量的总和减去“期望的”质量总和，就知道哪瓶有问题了。

代码：

// 6.1 There are 20 bottles of pills, all of which have pills of 1g, except one with 1.1g.
// Given a balance that can provides exact measurement, can you devise a method to find out the special bottle with just one try?
// Answer:
//    If you pick n[i] pills from bottle i, the total weight should be sigma(n[i] * 1.0).
//    But there is one with 1.1g pills, that would cause a little deviation to the sum.
//    For example, if we pick i pills from bottle i, the sum should be (20 + 1) * 20 / 2 = 210.
//    The real weight w should be greater than 210, (w - 210) / (1.1 - 1.0) will be the number.
int main()
{
    return 0;
}