Re: 7the grade issue

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 21:21:59 GMT, harryooopotter@xxxxxxxxxxx (Harry)
wrote:

>Having learned Prolog in college more than 20 years ago, I admitted
>I could remember not much about Prolog.
>Nows comes my son's (7th grade) math issue.
>I think it can be solved easily using Prolog.
>
> Using 13 US coins, what are all the ways to make $1.10?
>
>He need my help in solving this math problem.
>I can teach me trial and error, but there must be a smarter way.
>
>TIA
>

See

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CoinProblem.html
http://tinyurl.com/84x2x

Run google on coin changing problem to get more materials

A.L.
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