Plate Dropping

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Shivam has K identical plates and N floors. He needs to find the lowest floor at which the plate will break down aka critical floor. However, he doesn't like climbing stairs again and again. So he decided to take your help. Help him design a strategy that would tell him the minimum no of trials he need to perform for knowing the critical floor. Assume that plate will only break at critical floor

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