There are N secret agents each know a different piece of
secret information. They can telephone each other and
exchange all the information they know. After the telephone
call, they both know anything that either of them knew
before the call.

What are the minimum number of telephone calls needed so
that all of the them know everything?

Answer Posted / abhinay

if we suppose n=2
then minimum 1 call is needed to share the message to each
other.
if n=3 then 2+1 call
if n=4 then 3+2+1 call
similarly for N=n then (n-1)+(n-2)+(n-3)+.........+1 call
needed to share the message to each other

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