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Data publikacji: 26 cze 2025
Zakres stron: 1 - 18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rmm-2025-0001
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© 2025 Harold R. Parks et al., published by Sciendo
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The egg-drop experiment introduced by Konhauser, Velleman, and Wagon, later generalized by Boardman, is further generalized to two additional types. The three separate types of egg-drop experiment under consideration are examined in the context of binary decision trees. It is shown that all three types of egg-drop experiment are binary decision problems that can be solved efficiently using a non-redundant algorithm—a class of algorithms introduced here. The preceding theoretical results are applied to the three types of egg-drop experiment to compute, for each, the maximum height of a building that can be dealt with using a given number of egg-droppings.