Problem 42888. Frobenius McNugget Factorization

Created by Ned Gulley

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Jan Orwat on 6 Jun 2016

In test #2: 43 = 3+2*20, I've got frob = 37. In test #3: 207 = 17+10*19. I've got frob = 175;

Peng Liu on 6 Jun 2016

Got same results with Jan.

Peng Liu on 7 Jun 2016

A nice place to check the results: http://mathsjavascript.free.fr/frobenius_9_page.html

Ned Gulley on 7 Jun 2016

My apologies gentlemen! I rushed this into print yesterday afternoon. Thanks for the reference Peng. I have fixed the offending answers.

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