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3 January, 15:51

An evil king has n bottles of wine, and a spy has just poisoned one of them. unfortunately, they do not know which one it is. the poison is very deadly; just one drop diluted even a billion to one will still kill. even so, it takes a full month for the poison to take effect. design a scheme for determining exactly which one of the wine bottles was poisoned in just one month's time while expending o (log n) taste testers.

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  1. 3 January, 16:12
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    Have the taste tester consume a drop from each bottle 1 day after the other. He'll die exactly 1 month after he consumes the poisoned one.
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