curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/rosetta-code-challenges/59713bd26bdeb8a594fb9413.md
There are four types of common coins in US currency:
<ul> <li>quarters (25 cents)</li> <li>dimes (10 cents)</li> <li>nickels (5 cents), and</li> <li>pennies (1 cent)</li> </ul> <p>There are six ways to make change for 15 cents:</p> <ul> <li>A dime and a nickel</li> <li>A dime and 5 pennies</li> <li>3 nickels</li> <li>2 nickels and 5 pennies</li> <li>A nickel and 10 pennies</li> <li>15 pennies</li> </ul>Implement a function to determine how many ways there are to make change for a given input, cents, that represents an amount of US pennies using these common coins.
countCoins should be a function.
assert(typeof countCoins === 'function');
countCoins(15) should return 6.
assert.equal(countCoins(15), 6);
countCoins(85) should return 163.
assert.equal(countCoins(85), 163);
countCoins(100) should return 242.
assert.equal(countCoins(100), 242);
function countCoins(cents) {
return true;
}
function countCoins(cents) {
const operands = [1, 5, 10, 25];
const targetsLength = cents + 1;
const operandsLength = operands.length;
const t = [1];
for (let a = 0; a < operandsLength; a++) {
for (let b = 1; b < targetsLength; b++) {
// initialise undefined target
t[b] = t[b] ? t[b] : 0;
// accumulate target + operand ways
t[b] += (b < operands[a]) ? 0 : t[b - operands[a]];
}
}
return t[targetsLength - 1];
}