On the Frobenius Coin Problem in Three Variables

Negin Bagherpour, Amir Jafari, Amin Najafi Amin

Published 2022-03-22Version 1

The Frobenius coin problem in three variables, for three positive relatively prime integers $a_1< a_2< a_3$ asks to find the largest number not representable as $a_1x_1+a_2x_2+a_3x_3$ with non-negative integer coefficients $x_1$, $x_2$ and $x_3$. In this article, we present a new algorithm to solve this problem that is faster and in our belief simpler than all existing algorithms and runs in $\mbox{O}(\log a_1)$ steps.