Will anyone post an interesting math/algorithms koan/problem/exercise in the comments of this that I'll spend 30+min on?
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You have a balance scale again and you only want to carry 4 weight and be able to compare any item to any whole number of units. What is the maximum weight you can compare against or any smaller whole number? Your starter is that having weights of 1 2 4 8 for a max of 15 seems the obvious answer but it is wrong.
There is perhaps an interesting relation to the harder balance scale and jewels problem though I am not sure solving this helps the jewels problem much.
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