Problem 48. Making change

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Given an amount of currency, return a vector of this form:
 [100 50 20 10 5 2 1 0.5 0.25 0.1 0.05 0.01]
Example:
 Input a = 257.68
 Output b is [2 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 3]
Always use bigger bills/coins if possible.

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Serhii Tetora on 9 Jan 2019

Why function roundn is undefined?

Brandon on 23 Jun 2023

A lot of people are adding an amount smaller than a cent to the input to get around floating point issues. There are two other ways to get around this. One is to make the last cent 0.00999 instead. The other is to change your comparison line to compare against a slightly smaller/larger value.

Reuben on 14 Nov 2024

my first floating point issue, yay

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