Minimum Coin Change
Explore how to efficiently solve the minimum coin change problem using dynamic programming methods in C++. Understand the naive recursive approach and improve it with memoization and tabulation to find the least coins needed to make a total amount. Gain insights into time and space complexities and how to optimize your solution.
Statement
You’re given an integer total and a list of integers called coins. The integers inside the coins represent the coin denominations, and total is the total amount of money.
You have to return the minimum number of coins that can make up the total amount by using any combination of the available coins. If the amount can’t be made up, return -1. If the total amount is 0, return 0.
Note: You may assume that we have an infinite number of each kind of coin.
Let’s say, we have coins (1, 2, 3) and want to make a total amount of . The minimum number of coins required to make this total is coins, such that (2 + 3 = 5).
Constraints:
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coins.length -
coins[i]...