I guess so, unless you use a language whose compilers turns your recursive approach into an iteration 🤔

And with a total amount of submissions going soon to be 10k, how interesting that nobody never noticed that the kata does not work, uh?

It was the same for me when I first encountered this problem ages ago; glad to have reproduced the experience :)

Good idea: done 👍

Approved, thanks :)

Lol, no: it was more of a spoof of a certain mindset I am regrettably way too familiar, having been born and raised in the so-called "red triangle" in my native country (country which sported the largest communist party in Western Europe🙄).

And the alternative mindset was catholic fundamentalism, so maybe I should come up with some kata about that too 🤔 ...

Brute forcing your way by computing all the possible combinations before and filtering them more than once will never pass.

Think how you would solve this problem as a human instead :)

Glad you enjoyed it :)

Ah, interesting: feel free to post or just discusss your solution as a spoiler here.

But I do: enforcing equality of outcome it removes incentives to put more effort, upskill and in general outperform, in the asinine idea that differences are intrinsically bad (where no one of us will ever trade or work, if we were all perfectly equal); now, social-democracy is something else and more amenable, although still not my favourite thing.

Your Russian humour was no lost to me :D

Pretty sure you are referring to an Italian idiomatic sentence (which is different) and not a proverb, but also not sure how this correlates with the idea of socialist distribution, comrade.

Gladly approved 🙏