mcnuggets

mcnuggets, an Octave code which counts M(N), the number of ways a given number N of Chicken McNuggets can be assembled, given that they are only available in packages of 6, 9, and 20.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

mcnuggets is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Programs:

mcnuggets_test

octave_combinatorics, an Octave code which considers a variety of problems in combinatorics involving counting, combinations, permutations, and so on.

Reference:

1. Nick Berry,
   Chicken Nugget Numbers,
   https://datagenetics.com/blog/august22015/index.html
   Posted 02 August 2015.
2. John D Cook,
   The Chicken McNugget Monoid,
   https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/10/10/mcnugget-monoid/
   10 October 2022.

Source Code

• mcnugget_number_values.m, returns some sample values of M(N), the number of ways of getting N Chicken McNuggets;
• mcnugget_ways.m, returns the number of ways of getting N Chicken McNuggets for 0 <= N <= NMAX;
• mcnugget_solvable.m, determines whether there is any solution of the McNuggets problem for a given number N.