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By Karl (Contact - View My Woyano)
Published Fri 09 Nov 2007, 539 Views, 7 Comments

Here’s the scenario:

There once was a King who divided his land amongst his ten feudal lords. The King didn’t particularly care for the daily administration of those lands but asked that his feudal lords present him with 10 gold coins each every month, each coin weighing 1 gram.

One of the feudal lords decided that if he gave the King coins weighing .9 gram the King wouldn’t realize he had been cheated, and so did just that.

The Kings soothsayer had a dream that the King was being cheated by one of his feudal lords and thus devised an apparatus to weigh the coins. However due to the complexity of the machine it could only be used once. Once the coins were put onto it and it showed a reading, that was it! The apparatus couldn’t ever be re-used.

How did the King identify the feudal lord who was giving him coins weighing .9 gram using the weighing machine just once?

The solution:

You have each feudal lord place a certain number of coins each, the first person puts one coin the reading must show 1 gram the second puts two coins the total reading should show 30grams and so on....



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    Tequila Rose ~ 11 months ago
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    Little M&M elves paint them on (and no- little elves is not a euphemism for kids in china!!!!) hehe
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      imperfect_scarecrow ~ 11 months ago
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      having them put coins on individually, one at a time breaks the rules doesn't it? because the first coin would be placed, the reading of 1gram or .9 grams would be taken and that's it. no more readings can be taken am i right? you said

      "However due to the complexity of the machine it could only be used once. Once the coins were put onto it and it showed a reading, that was it!"

      please correct me if i'm wrong

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        Karl ~ 11 months ago
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        Yes if the rules are interpreted in a strict literal form you are absolutely right, but consider this ( and I don't know why I'm defending this lol ) if in the same device as the one in the current case if 200 coins were to be weighed it wouldn't be possible to load them onto the weighing apparatus at one time and it would have to be in 3 or maybe 4 batches, so I'm assuming the same was considered by the Kings minister in charge.
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          imperfect_scarecrow ~ 11 months ago
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          pretty much its no complicated apparatus. its just an over priced set of scales?

          brings up the memory of a story about a king who spent allot of money on some rather fake robes. am i right?
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            Karl ~ 11 months ago
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            You do know there are no real scales... I'm afraid you may be taking this too seriously...lol...
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        vadagh ~ 11 months ago
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        M & M pixies/elves!!, *chuckling*, nice one TR.
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          chrisc ~ 11 months ago
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          I hate m&m's
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            AdGuy
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            This is my two cents...

               
            Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)

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