Re: Change for a Dollar

Duncan Muirhead wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:31:27 -0700, BiGYaN wrote:

Hmmm .... there are really 293 ways of doing that .... I never
thought that was exact .... I thought it to be a number like 42.
But it really turns out that there are 293 way !!

I just hope that David Letterman did not hand compute them !!

Or that if he did, he doesn't wonder about the same question for
Euros (or UK pounds), where the coins are 1,2,5,10,20,50,100 and
there are 4563 ways.

Way back when before Newfoundland joined the Confederation it had
20 cent pieces, which were very similar to Canadian quarters. A
trip to the bank for a roll of them was handy, as you could buy a
set of street-car tickets with a quarter, and the conductor rarely
noticed the difference. IIRC they were worth about 15 cents, for
about 60% profit.

Who, me?

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