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Throwing eggs from a building. Suppose that you have an N-story building and plenty of egg...

Throwing eggs from a building. Suppose that you have an N-story building and plenty of eggs. Suppose also that an egg is broken if it is thrown off floor F or higher, and intact otherwise. First, devise a strategy to determine the value of F such that the number of broken eggs is ~lg N when using ~lg N throws, then find a way to reduce the cost to ~2 lg F when N is much larger than F.

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Solutions For Problems in Chapter 1.4