Settling Multiple Debts Efficiently: An Invitation to Computing Science

I present and solve several problems related to the settling of multiple debts. The solutions are documented in much detail, with (bright) high-school students in mind. One of the variants has a simple solution, though it is not so easy to code concisely. Another variant is an elegant NP-hard proble...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tom VERHOEFF
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University 2004-04-01
Series:Informatics in Education
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Online Access:http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/pdf/INFE023.pdf