208.The Largest Unreachable Total
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You have an unlimited supply of coins worth 3, 8 and 20. What is the largest total that cannot be made using non-negative whole numbers of these coins?
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Once you can make three consecutive totals, adding 3s reaches everything above. Find the first such run.
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