Coding challenge

Dave Cragg dave.cragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Thu Jan 31 14:59:11 EST 2013


On 31 Jan 2013, at 05:40, Paul D. DeRocco <pderocco at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Now how would you do it if the available coin values were:
> 
> 	40,30,10,4,3,1
> 
> That's a more interesting problem, but probably a less interesting coding
> test, because I think it would involve a more brute force approach, less
> elegance.

Right. Not only finding the least number of coins, but also checking that the available coins can be used to create the desired total. The presence of a 1-unit coin should make that so, so long as you check the desired total is an integer. Not all solutions checked for that. Tut tut! :-)

Dave



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