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Coin weghting: 13 coins with  2 defected coins  
« on: Apr 3rd, 2008, 4:45pm »
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I posted the same question in the "easy" section a a follow-up to Hippo's correct answer for the case of 8 coins. That said, it might be more relevant to post this question here:  
 
There are 13 coins of which 11 weighs A g each. The other two are defected. One weighs (A+ 2) g and the other weighs (A-2) g.  
 
Can you find out the two different coins using minimum weightings?  
 
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Are these weightings on a 2-pan scale or on a scale that gives the weight?
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I expect its the same puzzle with 8 replaced by 13, so the 2pan scales are expected.
 
So for the start there is 34<13*12<35 initial positions so we are trying to find solution on 5 measurements.
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« Reply #3 on: Apr 4th, 2008, 9:14pm »
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5 is the correct answer. Next, we would like to design a weighting scheme to achieve this target. Result from the 8 coins can be used here.
 
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« Reply #4 on: Apr 14th, 2008, 2:31am »
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It has been a while and it seems that nobody has come up with a solution. As such, I would like to give some hints here:
 
In the first three weighting we can do something like this:
 
(5, 6, 7, Cool  ?  (9,10,11,12)
(2, 8, 11, 12) ?  (3, 4, 9, 10)
(1, 4, 6, 10) ? (3, 7, 9, 12)

 
After that, there are two more weightings.
Let's continue.
 
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