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Further results for the counterfeit coin problems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Extract
The counterfeit coin problems consist in detecting and locating the anomalous weights of counterfeit coins amongst a set of genuine coins. Suppose that altogether there are n coins, of which at least n − k are known to be genuine. We do not know which coins are genuine; but we do know that all genuine coins have the same (unknown) weight. The weights of the remaining k coins are unspecified and possibly all different.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 1950 , pp. 226 - 230
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1950
References
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