How Many of a Hundred Hatted Prisoners Can Save Themselves from the King?
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 by Mark [+/-] show/hide this excerptWayne sprung this question on me yesterday. I swear he should have been a CS major.
The Hundred Hatted Prisoners
There are a hundred prisoners in a dungeon, sentenced to be executed the next morning. Fortunately for them, the king of the land is eccentric and offers them a chance to survive. He tells [...]