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minimalNumberOfCoins

You find yourself in Bananaland trying to buy a banana. You are super rich so you have an unlimited supply of banana-coins, but you are trying to use as few coins as possible.

The coin values available in Bananaland are stored in a sorted array coins. coins[0] = 1, and for each i (0 < i < coins.length) coins[i] is divisible by coins[i - 1]. Find the minimal number of banana-coins you’ll have to spend to buy a banana given the banana’s price.

Example

  • For coins = [1, 2, 10] and price = 28, the output should be
    minimalNumberOfCoins(coins, price) = 6.

    You have to use 10 twice, and 2 four times.

Input/Output

  • [execution time limit] 0.5 seconds 

  • [input] array.integer coins

    The coin values available in Bananaland.

    Guaranteed constraints:
    1 ≤ coins.length ≤ 5,
    1 ≤ coins[i] ≤ 10000.

  • [input] integer price

    A positive integer representing the price of the banana.

    Guaranteed constraints:
    8 ≤ price ≤ 100000.

  • [output] integer

    • The minimal number of coins you can use to buy the banana.

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