Why does the greedy coin change algorithm not work for some coin sets?
A set which forms a matroid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroid) can be used to solve the coin changing problem by using greedy approach. In brief, a matroid is an ordered pair M = (S,l) satisfying the following conditions: S is a finite nonempty set l is a nonempty family of subsets of S, called the independent subsets,such that … Read more