Sherclod Holmes @wallhackio@cat.family

@aschmitz yeah thats what it is

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I encountered a fun coding challenge while programming today.

Suppose you are teaching a class and you brought with yourself a bag of candy to hand out to your students. You want to hand out every piece of candy, but do it in a way that disperses the candy provided to each student as evenly as possible. No student should have more than 1 extra piece of candy than any other student. Exactly which students get the extra pieces of candy does not matter.

Task: Write a function that takes N students and M pieces of candy, where M > N, and returns an array of length N showing the amount candy given to each student.

Followup Task: Generate this array in O(N) time, where N is the number of students (NOT the amount of candy!)

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wow i just had a program fail because of floating point error, i have never had to deal with this before lol