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Jul 4, 2026 · Interview Experience

Finding the Poisoned Bottle Among 1000: Why 10 Mice Are Enough

The article explains how a binary‑encoding strategy lets you identify a single poisoned bottle out of 1000 using only ten mice by assigning each mouse to a bit position, sampling wines accordingly, and interpreting the death pattern as a 10‑bit address.

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Finding the Poisoned Bottle Among 1000: Why 10 Mice Are Enough