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#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 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
"""
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
"""