On Aug 18, 10:52 am, Baba <raoul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chas > > Thanks for that and i agree on your last remark :) > > re the number of required consecutive passes required: > > The number of required consecutive passes is equal to the smallest > number because after that you can get any amount of nuggets by just > adding the smallest nugget pack to some other number. > > This is only true if gcd(a,b,c)=1. > > Thanks to all for the help in getting to the bottom of the exercise. I > have truly enjoyed this and most importantly i have learned some new > things. Hadn't really done any mathematics in a long time and only > starting programming so this was good to get up to speed. > > kind regards to everyone! > Baba
Happy to be of service! Cheers - Chas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
