Problem 2902. What's for Lunch?

Created by Catherine Porter

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Guillaume on 30 Jan 2015

The solutions to the test suite assume that the number of sides choices is s*(s-1). In my opinion that's wrong, it should be nchoosek(s, 2). That is the order of the sides do not matter. sides [x y] is the same as sides [y x].

Jan Orwat on 30 Jan 2015

Agree with Guillaume

James on 30 Jan 2015

Do you have anything that's gluten free? :-)

Jihye Sofia Seo on 16 Feb 2017

I agree with Guillaume

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