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Elegant meaning the weighings are all the same, regardless of the outcome of the previous weighings.


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OK, I can buy that. Seems more 'brute force' than 'elegant' to me, but matter it's just semantics.

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(This problem has essentially ceased all work in the engineering department of my company for the past day).


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Good to know why we're lagging behind the Japanese.

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I wish he explained his as clearly as you did, it took me forever to decipher 3 pages of notes.

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Just because the solution is elegant doesn't mean the explanation is, unfortunately.