#ProjectEuler/Python/Problem31.py #Matthew Ellison # Created: 06-19-20 #Modified: 06-19-20 #How many different ways can £2 be made using any number of coins? #Unless otherwise listed, all of my non-standard imports can be gotten from my pyClasses repository at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/pyClasses """ Copyright (C) 2020 Matthew Ellison This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . """ from Stopwatch import Stopwatch #Setup the variables __desiredValue = 200 def Problem31(): permutations = 0 #Start with 200p and remove the necessary coins with each loop for pound2 in range(__desiredValue, -1, -200): for pound1 in range(pound2, -1, -100): for pence50 in range(pound1, -1, -50): for pence20 in range(pence50, -1, -20): for pence10 in range(pence20, -1, -10): for pence5 in range(pence10, -1, -5): for pence2 in range(pence5, -1, -2): permutations += 1 #Print the results print("There are " + str(permutations) + " ways to make 2 pounds with the given denominations of coins") #This calls the appropriate functions if the script is called stand alone if __name__ == "__main__": timer = Stopwatch() timer.start() Problem31() timer.stop() print("It took " + timer.getString() + " to run this algorithm") """ Results: There are 73682 ways to make 2 pounds with the given denominations of coins It took 2.653 milliseconds to run this algorithm """