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== Pareto Frontier Improvements Graph ==  
== Time-Space Tradeoff ==  


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Revision as of 14:47, 15 February 2023

Description

Given an unlimited amount of coins of denominations $c_1, \ldots, c_n$, and a desired sum $S$, find the minimum number of coins necessary to make $S$.

Parameters

n: number of coin denominations

S: sum to be made

Table of Algorithms

Name Year Time Space Approximation Factor Model Reference
Brute Force 1940 $O(S^n)$ $O(n)$ Exact Deterministic
Dynamic Programming 1953 $O(Sn)$ $O(Sn)$ Exact Deterministic Time
Probabilistic Convolution Tree 2014 $O(n log n)$ $O(n log n)$ Deterministic Time & Space

Time Complexity Graph

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Space Complexity Graph

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Time-Space Tradeoff

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