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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change-making_problem#Methods_of_solving Commented Feb 28, 2014 at 21:49
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    The solution is conceptually possible with both of those mechanisms, the issue is that even with 10 or 20 currencies the code takes a non-trivial time to return a solution. Increasing that to 1200 seems unmanageable. Commented Feb 28, 2014 at 21:56
  • It's not a tractable problem if you require exact precision Commented Feb 28, 2014 at 22:00