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Anyone get a solution to 7 that doesn't involve a whole lot of steps? I did it in 44 steps, with the same 4 step combo being repeated 10 times in a row to work
by bryondowd 11y ago
Anyone get a solution to 7 that doesn't involve a whole lot of steps? I did it in 44 steps, with the same 4 step combo being repeated 10 times in a row to work down to 0.3 liters.
- deckar01 11y agoMy breadth first search found that the shortest solution was 44 steps. https://gist.github.com/deckar01/beb96fc0afc0715f01bb https://gist.github.com/deckar01/beb96fc0afc0715f01bb
- metafunctor 11y agoMost buckets are shaped like a truncated cone, so with a steady eye one should be able to fill a bucket to exactly half (2.15 or 2.35 liters). However, in this puzzle, this little trick doesn't help and the shortest solution is indeed 44 steps.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoHow does being shaped like a cone frustum help?? Even if the bucket were a cylinder (so filling it to half height got you half the volume), that would be crazy difficult. With slanted sides, how could you possibly know how high to fill for half the volume? Did you bring a protractor? Sextant?