There are n monkeys and m different wines. Among these wines, one is poisonous but unknown. You can prepare a separate glass for each monkey using any portion of any wine. A glass can contain liquid from any number of wines. If a glass contains any amount of the poisonous wine, the monkey will die after drinking it. For each of these n monkeys, you prepare a glass that they will drink exactly at 8:00 PM. By knowing which monkeys die, you must identify the poisonous wine. Find the minimum value of n as a function of m.
Answer (1)
To solve this problem, we need to identify the minimum number of monkeys, n , required to determine the poisonous wine among m different wines. This is a typical problem of binary encoding in combinatorics. ;
