26 Aug 2022 4:12 pm
Okay, I'm back. I have solved for the initial 8 being control, and I have solved for the sequestered 4 being control, but only when sequestering 2 from a and 1 from b and getting an even weight. An odd weight defeated me.
An odd weight left us with 5 suspects in 2 groups of 4 - a and b, light and heavy, respectively. Two are in one group, and three are in the other. We have identified neither the suspect nor the weight problem, and we have only one weighing left.
I need an applied math course - I should be able to set this up. I don't now whether I need to back out of my second solution (Replacing 2&1 of the suspects from the control group of four), or think harder about the present problem in the event of an unequal weighing (Leaving us with 3 suspects on one side and 2 on the other - and 9 control marbles identified). Hmmm...
Musing...
I simply cannot see any way to work out the 3v2 dead end in a single weighing... so I would have to go back and try something OTHER than replacing 1 from a and 2 from b...
That is another dead end, for me. I am going to don my softest leather loafers - **** that, my cloth slippers - and prepare to kick my own ***. @RunningWithScissors, @Jantje_Smit, I surrender.
An odd weight left us with 5 suspects in 2 groups of 4 - a and b, light and heavy, respectively. Two are in one group, and three are in the other. We have identified neither the suspect nor the weight problem, and we have only one weighing left.
I need an applied math course - I should be able to set this up. I don't now whether I need to back out of my second solution (Replacing 2&1 of the suspects from the control group of four), or think harder about the present problem in the event of an unequal weighing (Leaving us with 3 suspects on one side and 2 on the other - and 9 control marbles identified). Hmmm...
Musing...
I simply cannot see any way to work out the 3v2 dead end in a single weighing... so I would have to go back and try something OTHER than replacing 1 from a and 2 from b...
That is another dead end, for me. I am going to don my softest leather loafers - **** that, my cloth slippers - and prepare to kick my own ***. @RunningWithScissors, @Jantje_Smit, I surrender.
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice
"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?