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Glass balls and tower

 
You have two glass balls and a 100-story tower. You would like to determine the lowest floor from which a glass ball will break when dropped. You can reuse a ball if it remains unbroken after a trial. Assume that the value of lowest floor is distributed uniformly and find the strategy which minimizes the expected number of tries.

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