🗑️ 🧵 Deposit to Bills Algorithm

Anonymous at Sun, 28 Jul 2024 21:44:38 UTC No. 16300938

Ok /sci/ I am requesting your assistance. I am trying to make a function that converts a total deposit into constituent bills. Cents will not be in this function. I just need to wrap my head around it.

Examples of what I need:
Deposit = 253
bills = deposit_to_bills(253)//returns an array of bills where each index represents a different bill count
//[ones,twos,fives,tens,twentys,fifties,hundreds]
//if there is no bill, the value shall be false, if there is, that section of the array will be the number

Bills could be 2 hundreds, 1 fifty, and 3 ones.
//[3,false,false,false,false,1,2]
//this is the style returned

Bills could ALSO be 5 fifties, 3 ones.
Bills could ALSO be 1 hundred, 7 twenties, 1 ten, and 3 ones

I have yet to wrap my head around an algorithm for this, and I hope someone can help. I'm trying to replicate a standard bank deposit, but need to generate random bills for each deposit. I've been banging my head against a wall for the past hour and still can't get it to work.

Thanks in advance!