On 08/11/2010 10:14 PM, Baba wrote: > level: beginner > > exercise: given that packs of McNuggets can only be bought in 6, 9 or > 20 packs, write an exhaustive search to find the largest number of > McNuggets that cannot be bought in exact quantity. > > exercise source: > http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/assignments/pset2.pdf > > please help me write this code > > i believe it's something along the lines of this: > > c=0 > sol=[] > for n in range (0,10): > for a in range (0,10): > for b in range (0,10): > for c in range (0,10): > sol=6*a+9*b+20*c > if sol!=n: > c+=1 > if c==6: > print sol >
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