mcnuggets_diophantine, a MATLAB code which finds the ways a given number N of Chicken McNuggets can be assembled, given that they are only available in packages of 6, 9, and 20.
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license
mcnuggets_diophantine is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.
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