Problem 304. Bottles of beer

Created by Alan Chalker

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Trung Duong on 19 Feb 2012

The correct answer should be always 0, :)

James on 27 Feb 2012

If zero is the number that's input into the function, you end up with -1 bottles of beer on the wall?

Kye Taylor on 7 Apr 2012

Negative beer amounts? Oh dear

Soner on 3 Jan 2013

Negative amounts of beer? Means you are drunk then:)

Hussam Mehboob on 30 May 2013

Do you seriously require a matlab program to solve this?:/

Jeevan Thomas on 11 Nov 2013

Problem worth solving.
Beer all the way..Cheers..!!

Christian on 28 Mar 2014

could be a bit more challenging...
For instance, why don't calculate the statistic probabillity how many beer is drunk by male & female party people during one night. With exponential increasing amount of drunken beer in the later hours... ;-)

Emilio Calabuig on 25 May 2015

Easy!

mohd mu'aazullah yaakob on 27 Dec 2016

good

Angela Labianca-Campbell on 17 Jan 2017

Simply fun.

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Marvinccy on 25 Nov 2016

It is weird that I've been wrong for twice.

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David Verrelli on 3 Sep 2018

This user (mohamed elbesealy) appears to have gamed the system, with fraudulent "likes" of this unremarkable solution submitted by 'sock-puppet' accounts. —DIV

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srujana vantikommu on 22 May 2015

what is the problem in my solution? why it is showing error.

Brian Butler on 14 Nov 2015

output is named 'remaining' and not 'y'

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Lukas on 9 Nov 2014

Did I miss the twist?

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Sam on 23 May 2012

D: What the ...

Hooray BEER! :D

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