Re: Logic Progress

Joe Horowitz wrote:

"nigel" <useweb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:13c10r2a76c1a68@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


The time shit was partly to stop people assuming that victims would die exactly the same amount of time after ingesting the poison, which would have enabled the following answer.

Prisoner 1 takes a sip of a mixture of all bottles. At the same time, prisoner 2 takes a sip of bottle 1, then a fixed interval later a sip of bottle two then a sip of bottle three etc.

The interval between the deaths of the two prisoners divided by the interval between sips gives the index of the dodgy bottle.


If you knew exactly how long the poison would take, you'd only need 1 prisoner!


Prisoner one is the control, to establish that information.


If my fuzzy brain can do anything right today, prisoner two can take up to 3 seconds between sips. And of course, if it was in Mediaeval China, they would have no doubt invented precision stopwatches by then to do the measuring.


Your fuzzy brain has overcomplicated things, Nigel.

It's not always fuzzy. Sometimes it's very black and empty and I keep dreaming I'm Kullrad. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm not and my team doesn't have a crap keeper.


It's exactly this sort of thing which has led to you killing Youksef.


Youksef is dead? Why didn't anyone tell me? When's the memorial service?

Cunt.

Thank you.

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