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birbal
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coins and change
« on: Feb 5th, 2012, 9:07am » |
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You have coins with different denominations and you have limited number of each denominations (some maybe zero), how will you determine if you can supply the given change.
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Re: coins and change
« Reply #1 on: Feb 5th, 2012, 11:23am » |
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I think it depends on the denominations whether a greedy approach will work; but that'd be one thing to try.
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Re: coins and change
« Reply #2 on: Sep 22nd, 2012, 2:50am » |
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Can we model it as DP?
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Re: coins and change
« Reply #3 on: Jul 20th, 2013, 1:07am » |
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on Sep 22nd, 2012, 2:50am, R wrote:
Dynamic programming would be awkward in this case, because there would be multiple ways of getting to each amount.
I would use an integer programming library: unless the problem was extraordinarily large, it would answer this question in a snap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change-making_problem
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