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Your main problem is that you are not looping. Every beer you bought from rmb<\/code> gives you one more bottle, and one more cap. This new bottle and cap might be enough to earn you another rmb<\/code>, which might be enough for another beer. Your implementation handles this to a limited extent, since you call maxbeers multiple times, but it will not give the correct answer if you give it a truckload of beers, i.e. 25656 bottles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you know the number of rmb<\/code> you have, you can do the calculation by hand on paper and write this:<\/p>\n

def maxbeers(rmb):\n    return 7  # totally correct, I promise. Checked this by hand.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
but that’s no fun. What if rmb<\/code> is 25656<\/code>?<\/p>\n
Assuming we can exchange:<\/p>\n
2 bottles -> 1 rmb\n4 caps -> 1 rmb\n2 rmb -> 1 beer + 1 cap + 1 bottle\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
we calculate it like this, through simulation:<\/p>\n
def q(rmb):\n    beers = 0\n    caps = 0\n    bottles = 0\n    while rmb > 0:\n        # buy a beer with rmb\n        rmb -= 2\n        beers += 1\n        caps += 1\n        bottles += 1\n\n        # exchange all caps for rmb\n        while caps >= 4:\n            rmb += 1\n            caps -= 4\n\n        # exchange all bottles for rmb\n        while bottles >= 2:\n            rmb += 1\n            bottles -= 2\n\n    return beers\n\nfor a in range(20):\n    print(\"rmb:\", a, \"beers:\", q(a))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Then we can buy 20525 beers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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