Problem 43131. Which coins to give

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 15 Sep 2020

This problem is hard due the precision error that floating-point numbers have. The number 0.1 may not be equal to 0.1, be careful.

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Asif Newaz on 18 Dec 2019

i am surprised to see why the same thing doesn't work when kept in decimal

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bainhome on 21 Mar 2018

cool idea! very eye-opening

bainhome on 22 Mar 2018

Second thoughts: I think in the new version of MATLAB, the initial value of ans should be set for empty matrix, not empty string.

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