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by benibela 3471 days ago
Actually it seems you can have a 17th bottle.

Use binary search to find the poisoned bottle among bottle 1 to 16. If you fail to find a poisoned bottle, it is the 17th

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No, that's already covered by 0000, nobody drinks that one. Number the bottles 0 to 15 and it's clearer.