Currency

Created on June 12, 2021 by Julien Palard

Write a function named how_to_pay taking two parameters: amount and currency.

• amount is an amount to pay.
• currency describe the currency as a list of existing coins or banknotes.

The function should return a dict describing the easiest way to pay amount with the given currency.

For example, to pay 3 with a currency having coins of [1, 2, 5] you have to use one coin of 2 and one coin of 1, so the function should return {2: 1, 1: 1}.

Usage example

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>>> euro = [1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500]
>>> how_to_pay(500, euro)
{500: 1}  # means: To pay 500€: give one bill of 500€
>>> how_to_pay(10, euro)
{10: 1}  # means: To pay 10€: give one bill of 10€
>>> how_to_pay(123, euro)    # To pay 123 euros:
{100: 1, 20: 1, 2: 1, 1: 1}  # give 1 bill of 100€, one bill of 20€,
                             # one coin of 2€, and one coin of 1€.

Hint

It is OK to explicitly tell there's no need of a specific coin, but not mandatory, both are good to me. I mean both are valid answers:

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>>> how_to_pay(1, [1, 5])
{1: 1, 5: 0}
>>> how_to_pay(1, [1, 5])
{1: 1}