Saddam Hussein’s Trial
Oh wow! Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death! This was unexpected!
It’s pretty meaningless too. (The EU says “Don’t kill him!”) This sounds like a sham. Not necessarily in that the trial was done unfairly, but just in that…the trial didn’t mean much to begin with. It was supposed to be the new Iraq finishing the business of the old Iraq, but like the occupation, it seems like it’s really about the U.S.
Just my 29.55 Iraqi dinars. (.02 USD, for the rest of you.)
Posted November 5th, 2006 in Personal.
What is the smallest n such that you can’t make change for a dollar with n coins?
\Mfunction{ReplaceAll}(\Mfunction{Collect}(\left( \sum
_{i = 0}^{100}t^{i\,1}\,c^i \right) \,
\left( \sum_{i = 0}^{20}t^{i\,5}\,c^i \right) \,
\left( \sum_{i = 0}^{10}t^{i\,10}\,c^i \right) \,
\left( \sum_{i = 0}^{4}t^{i\,25}\,c^i \right) \,
\left( \sum_{i = 0}^{2}t^{i\,50}\,c^i \right) \,
\left( \sum_{i = 0}^{1}t^{i\,100}\,c^i \right) ,c),
\{ {{{\Mfunction{t}}^{100}}\rightarrow 1},{t\rightarrow 0}\} )
Are you impressed by my utter mastery of generating functions? I tried to expand this during the contest, but the stupid 89 is much too slow. I have no idea how they thought this problem was even possible.
November 6th, 2006 at 11:18 pm