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The string problem where you burn it in creative ways in order to measure a certain amount of time?
by ReverseCold 8y ago
The string problem where you burn it in creative ways in order to measure a certain amount of time?
- komali2 8y agoProbably: You have two identical ropes. If you light a rope on fire, it will finish burning in exactly one hour. The burn rate is inconsistent - there is no relationship between how much of the rope has burned, and how much time has passed, until the rope has fully burned away. How can you use the two ropes to measure 15 minutes? Given that it's printed in cracking the coding interview, Google has almost certainly banned this problem.
- joatmon-snoo 8y agoThat's also a brain teaser type problem that we killed over ten years ago.