looping through possible combinations of McNuggets packs of 6, 9 and 20
Baba
raoulbia at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 16:14:35 EDT 2010
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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