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This problem puts emphasis on trying to gain as much information as
possible from each weighing, whatever the outcome. So if a weighing
has one outcome which gives you a lot of information, but another
outcome which doesn't gives you much new information, it is
probably not going to be a useful way of identifying the odd
weight.