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Gaza
Gaza

Reputation: 427

Get a list of all the times a number divides another and the remainder

What I want to do is equally split a number, total, into a list such that the list consists as many times as possible of the same number, split, and the sum of the list will be equal to total.

For example, given:

total = 120
split = 50

I would like to get a list as:

eqParts = [50, 50, 20]  # 50 + 50 + 20 = 120 = total

Because 50 can fit two times in 120 and the remainder is 20.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 93

Answers (1)

OneCricketeer
OneCricketeer

Reputation: 191864

Seems like you want modulo operations and the final remainder.

Checkout divmod

>>> a = 120
>>> b = 50
>>> whole, remaining = divmod(a, b)
>>> whole*[b] + [remaining]
[50, 50, 20]

Upvotes: 3

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