From: Ruby Quiz <james@...>
Date: 2006-02-04T00:20:36+09:00
Subject: [QUIZ] Splitting the Loot (#65)

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You, and your trusty band of adventurers, have stumbled upon a hidden cache of
rubies!  (What luck, eh?)  Not all gems are created equal, so you sneak them
home and take your time evaluating the stones.  The find was an equal effort,
and you're all horribly greedy, so you must find a fair system for dividing up
the gems.

This week's Ruby Quiz is to write a program that fairly divides treasures, based
on worth.

The first command-line argument to the program will be the number of adventures.
All other arguments are the numerical values of treasures found.  You're program
should output a fair split of the treasures, if possible, or a warning message
if a fair split cannot be found.

Examples:

	$ ruby loot.rb 3 1 2 3 4
	It is not possible to fairly split this treasure 3 ways.
	$ ruby loot.rb 2 9 12 14 17 23 32 34 40 42 49
	1:  9 12 32 34 49
	2:  14 17 23 40 42