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Eggs and floors dynamic programming java.
Java programming egg dropping puzzle dynamic programming description of instance of this famous puzzle involving n 2 eggs and building with k 36 floors the following is a description of the instance of this famous puzzle involving n 2 eggs and a building with k 36 floors.
If egg breaks we one by one try remaining 13 floors.
4 we first try from 4 th floor.
See below for programming solution for general k eggs and n floors.
Try dropping an egg from each floor from 1 to k and calculate the minimum number of dropping needed in worst case.
What is the least number of egg droppings that is guaranteed to work in all cases.
Play safe and drop from floor 1 if egg does not break then drop from floor 2 and so on.
So egg dropping puzzle has both properties see this and this of a dynamic programming problem.
The optimal number of trials is 14 in worst case.
Wiki for dynamic programming.
If egg doesn t break we go to 27th floor.
Base cases eggs 1 floors x.
Suppose 2 eggs are available.
If egg doesn t break on 27 th floor we go to 39 th floor.
The problem is not actually to find the critical floor but merely to decide floors from which eggs should be dropped so that total number of trials are minimized.
N eggs k floors.
Two cases arise 1 if egg breaks we have one egg left so we need three more trials.
So in worst case x times an egg needs to be dropped to find the solution.
Given 2 eggs and k floors find the minimum number of trials needed in worst case.