Throwing cats out of windows

Question

Imagine you\'re in a tall building with a cat. The cat can survive a fall out of a low story window, but will die if thrown from a high floor. How can you figure out the lon

Answer 1

all this crazy talk about cats..and it's just a guess the number problem with minimum guesses (number of cats). there shouldn't be a need to artificially (and incorrectly) define infinity as part of the solution either. the variable should have been named upper-bound or max-try or some such. the problem definition (the cat thing) has some serious issues though, with people responding to animal cruelty potential and also the many facets of such a problem posed in real life, e.g. air-drag, gravity is acceleration, and other such real life parameters of the problem. so perhaps it should have been asked in a totally different way.