mcnuggets_diophantine


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.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

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

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Reference:

  1. John D Cook,
    The Chicken McNugget Monoid,
    https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/10/10/mcnugget-monoid/
    10 October 2022.

Source Code


Last revised on 03 November 2022.