That's not verbing. "Doing a Devorak" is nouning. It's like if I say someone is "popping a wheelee." Wheelee is the noun, popping is the verb.
Now, if I say that someone is "Devoraking," then I'd be verbing Devorak.
The problem with this is that the king can alternate between the counter and one prisoner (n - 1) * (k + 1) times, and then call everyone else in later (It's not the king's fault if the counter answers yes too early and gets everyone killed...) If each prosoner had a limit on the number of times they can flip the cup, say (k / n) + 1, the king would not be able to exploit the system so easily. I haven't crunched the numbers, but if the cup-flipping limit was set to the correct number for each prisoner, then each prisoner would have to exhaust all their possible flips before the target number ( in this case, (n * ( (k / n) + 1 ))) which would mean all the prisoners would have have to had come out.
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That's not verbing. "Doing a Devorak" is nouning. It's like if I say someone is "popping a wheelee." Wheelee is the noun, popping is the verb. Now, if I say that someone is "Devoraking," then I'd be verbing Devorak.
lol no I'm not a gold farmer!
The problem with this is that the king can alternate between the counter and one prisoner (n - 1) * (k + 1) times, and then call everyone else in later (It's not the king's fault if the counter answers yes too early and gets everyone killed...) If each prosoner had a limit on the number of times they can flip the cup, say (k / n) + 1, the king would not be able to exploit the system so easily. I haven't crunched the numbers, but if the cup-flipping limit was set to the correct number for each prisoner, then each prisoner would have to exhaust all their possible flips before the target number ( in this case, (n * ( (k / n) + 1 ))) which would mean all the prisoners would have have to had come out. Shawn