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The interesting nature of the problem is that you can't just 'eliminate swathes', your question must evenly divide the entire population.
by _sh 13y ago
The interesting nature of the problem is that you can't just 'eliminate swathes', your question must evenly divide the entire population.
- ketralnis 13y agoI don't think that that's a requirement at all, unless you think that his second example question of a list of countries perfectly divides the population with not even a rounding error
- _sh 13y agoIf you don't evenly divide the remaining population of the earlier questions, you'll need more than 33 questions.
- PeterisP 13y agoFor the purposes of this problem (and most other purposes) if you have a question that divides answers in 47%:A 51%:B 2%:'stupid_question_doesn't_fit_me_I'll_answer_randomly', then it's still perfectly okay.
- _sh 13y agoNo, answering randomly is not okay. You will not be able to reproduce the bit string if there is a random answer any more than two source texts with a single bit changed between them will produce the same hash.