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Re: Making Change, once more

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  • Subject: [mg15193] Re: [mg15160] Making Change, once more
  • From: Jurgen Tischer <jtischer at col2.telecom.com.co>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:11:08 -0500
  • Organization: Universidad del Valle
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Sorry, I missed the point in the definition of numberChanges. Of course
it should be

In[8]:= numberChanges[x_,1]=1;

In[9]:= numberChanges[x_,n_]:=numberChanges=
  Sum[numberChanges[x-k coins[[-n]],n-1],{k,0,Quotient[x,coins[[-n]]]}]

In[11]:= numberChanges[x_]:=numberChanges[x,6]

In[12]:= numberChanges[100]

Out[12]= 293

And now I can get the answer for 10 dollars:

In[13]:= Timing[numberChanges[1000]]

Out[13]= {1.37 Second,2103596}

Jurgen


Wilson Figueroa wrote:
> 
> Hello Group,
> 
> I have a question pertaining to making change.
> 
etc.



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