> From: Robert Sneidar > > OIC now. 3 & 3 is the best answer but the algorithm produces > 4 + 1 + 1. Well I think the issue here is that currency is > never (or almost never) designed this way. No one would make > a 3 dollar bill coincidentally with a 4 dollar bill. There > would be no practical reason to. > > And yet I remember for a time the USA produced a one dollar > bill and a two dollar bill. So never say never! :-) > > It seems that when creating currency values, one of the > overriding principles OUGHT to be that each smaller value > ought to divide evenly into all the larger values. I'm sure > this is what was intended with American currency when it was > first created in it's present form. Otherwise making change > becomes rather tedious.
Actually, there was a brief time (1875-1888) when we had both a quarter and a 20-cent coin. So the algorithm would make 40 cents out of 25+10+5, instead of 20+20. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
