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A building has 100 floors. One of the floors is the highest floor an egg can be dropped from without breaking.
If an egg is dropped from above that floor, it will break. If it is dropped from that floor or below, it will be completely undamaged and you can drop the egg again.
Given two eggs, find the highest floor an egg can be dropped from without breaking, with as few drops as possible.
We can do better than a binary approach, which would have a worst case of 50 drops.
We can even do better than 19 drops!
We can always find the highest floor an egg can be dropped from with a worst case of 14 total drops.
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