#69 · Puzzles · Optimization

Two eggs, a hundred floors

You have two identical eggs and a 100-floor building. An egg breaks if dropped from floor $N$ or above, and survives below it. With only two eggs, what is the fewest drops that guarantees finding $N$ in the worst case?

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