Re: Fun Fact About a Fun Fact




"Tom Costello" <tomcos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Helen Read wrote:

This week's Fun Fact #2, "There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar"
is true. It sounded about right, so I checked and did the calculation.
The total number of ways to make $1 using any combination of pennies,
nickels, dimes, half-dollars, and dollars, is indeed 293.

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HPR

I only came up with 292 combinations. Which one am I missing?


The obvious one.

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