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in reply to Re^3: Golf: Buying with exact change
in thread Golf: Buying with exact change
Well, only if there is a solution. For instance, if you plug in 4 and 2 in your solution, you'll get 2 as an answer - but it's obvious you can pay 2 exactly. Note that for 2 numbers there is a (finite) answer if and only if the 2 numbers are relative prime. (Which is easy to see, if they aren't relative prime, they share a prime number p in their factors. Which means that any amount you can pay will be a multiple of p.)
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