Creating a change table - £0.01-£0.50?

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Without modulo or divmod:

cost = 51
paid = 100
coins = [50,20,10,5,2,1]
change = []
for coin in coins:
    while (paid - cost) / coin >= 1:
        change.append(coin)
        paid -= coin

print(change)
print(sum(change))

Output:
[20, 20, 5, 2, 2]
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Yoriz write Oct-22-2022, 07:51 AM:

I'm in two minds, because this is homework, and we are not supposed to ...

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