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imurray on June 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Good puzzle: 12 balls, 1 a diff weight, find in 3 ...

Yes. I'm afraid I'm heading off and can't think of a good way to hint Right Now.

(It's Exercise 4.13 in http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html ... and there is a solution and other related weighing problems in there.)

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