Coding challenge

[Paul D. DeRocco]

> From: Robert Sneidar
> 
> OIC now. 3 & 3 is the best answer but  the algorithm produces 
> 4 + 1 + 1. Well I think the issue here is that currency is 
> never (or almost never) designed this way. No one would make 
> a 3 dollar bill coincidentally with a 4 dollar bill. There 
> would be no practical reason to. 
> 
> And yet I remember for a time the USA produced a one dollar 
> bill and a two dollar bill. So never say never! :-)
> 
> It seems that when creating currency values, one of the 
> overriding principles OUGHT to be that each smaller value 
> ought to divide evenly into all the larger values. I'm sure 
> this is what was intended with American currency when it was 
> first created in it's present form. Otherwise making change 
> becomes rather tedious. 

Actually, there was a brief time (1875-1888) when we had both a quarter and
a 20-cent coin. So the algorithm would make 40 cents out of 25+10+5, instead
of 20+20.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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