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the eggs are identical...

start at the first floor, if it doesn't break take that same egg and move to the next floor.

So on and so forth until it breaks...the floor before the egg broke after dropping from, is the highest floor you can drop the egg from for it not to break.

The question being how many drops you need to make, the answer is between 1-100 and is based on whether both eggs are hard or soft.

My guess you won't get passed the first floor...

But I am sure that is the kind of critical thinking they are aimed at discovering their interviewees to possess.]]>Nov 8th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/
One major factor that you fail to recognize is that with every dropping of the egg, the shell is going to be weakened. Thus if you drop one egg five times and then it breaks on the sixth floor, the number of stories it can fall without breaking might not have been originally five, but simply because it has been weakened by so many consecutive falls.]]>Nov 8th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/
Also, another piece of information that people have thusfar managed to overlook was that of eggs sometimes being fragile and other times being strong. This particular pair of identical eggs could either be weak or strong, but not both. Therefor, this pair of eggs will not be able to represent all eggs, merely just the pair. If multiple test cases were run with other pair of identical-yet different from the other pairs of -eggs, then a hypothesis could be reached, but this would just create another statistic. There is no factual answer.]]>Nov 8th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/Nov 9th 2009 12:53AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/
The answer: Zero

You don't tune a piano, you 'temper' it]]>Nov 9th 2009 3:05AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/Nov 9th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/
Groups of 10 first, then subdivide. The solution is guaranteed in 17 drops.

I can get it down to a guaranteed max of 14 drops.]]>Jan 12th 2010 5:40PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/http://www.switched.com/2009/11/08/can-you-answer-googles-job-interview-questions/
What's the difference between a piano and a tuna?

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you can Tune-a piano but you can't Tuna-fish!]]>Apr 16th 2010 2:57PM