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Bill Splitter
Python script to split bills equally
Introduction
Imagine you go to a restaurant with four of your friends. The bill will be $105. You give $50 and others chip in $40, $10 and $5 and another friend dont have change so he didn't give. Bill should have been split $21 each way so now you need to calculate who owes howmuch to whom. This python script will solve this problem. The script takes contributions (individual share) to a bill and then gives who owes how much to whom with minimum number of transaction
Usage
Run the script.py
cd bill_splitter
python script.py
Enter the number of people among whom the bill is supposed to be split. eg: 2
Number of participants : 2
Enter the name of participant and his/her contribution to the bill separated by a space. eg: John 50
Enter name and contribution of participant 1 :
John 50
Enter name and contribution of participant 2 :
Travis 100
Output
John paid $50
Travis paid $100
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Total pool amount : $150
Per head : $75.0
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John should pay $25.0 to Travis
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Conclusion
The algorithm is designed in such a way that it will generate a result that has least number of transaction involved to achieve maximum efficiency.