SPOONS - Editorial

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Why minimum number of cities required is not equal to the number of spoons required. Because in every set of cities a spoon server, there should be atleast one city which should be unique. So if every city has at least one unique city, then number of cities will be equal to number of spoons…

Please correct me where I am wrong on this track of thoughts…

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Try to answer for yourself, what is the answer for input 5 = you want to place 5 spoons, how many cities do you need for this? You say 5, but you are looking for minimal number of cities and we can achieve this with 4 cities

1 2
1 3
1 4
2 3
2 4

are the 5 spoons with 4 cities…