# Fred's water bill

Fred is a quasi-friendly guy, but in reality he is mean.

Because of this, Fred lives alone in a small apartment in Los Altos, CA. Fred is so mean because he is very particular about water. He, therefore, needs your help with figuring out what his water bill is.

Your job is to write a function or program that returns his water bill given the amount of water used as input (which is always an integer).

Water consumption comes in tiers. This means that there are ranges of prices depending on the amount of water.

These are the tiers, their prices, and the amounts of water they correspond to:

Tier I
First 10 Ccf: $3.8476/Ccf Tier II Next 17 Ccf:$4.0932/Ccf
Tier III
All subsequent water: $4.9118/Ccf  For n hundreds of cubic feet (Ccf), there are the following additional charges as well: CPUC fee: 1.5% of above charges LIRA quantity surcharge:$0.047*n
PBOP amoritization surcharge: $0.004*n  The sum of the Tier I, Tier II, Tier III, CPUC, LIRA, and PBOP fees is the total water bill. This sum you should either return or print to the console rounded to two decimal places. Here are two examples: Input: 15 ... Calculations which you do not need to output but here to help explain: Tier I: 10*3.8476 = 38.476 Tier II: (15-10)*4.0932 = 20.466 Tier III: 0*4.9118 = 0 Tiers sum: 58.942 CPUC: 1.5% of 58.942 = 0.88413 LIRA: 0.047*15 = 0.705 PBOP: 0.004*15 = 0.06 Total sum: 58.942 + 0.88413 + 0.705 + 0.06 = 60.59113 ... Output: 60.59 Input: 100 ... Calculations which you do not need to output but here to help explain: Tier I: 10*3.8476 = 38.476 Tier II: 17*4.0932 = 69.5844 Tier III: (100-10-17)*4.9118 = 358.5614 Tiers sum: 466.6218 CPUC: 1.5% of = 6.999327 LIRA: 0.047*100 = 4.7 PBOP: 0.004*100 = 0.4 Total sum: 478.721127 ... Output: 478.72  This is code golf so shortest code in bytes wins! • Please check that my edit matches your intent. – msh210 Jun 28 '16 at 6:33 • Yeah thanks @msh210, that's much clearer than what I had – Daniel Jun 28 '16 at 6:35 • If you are willing to waste reputation on down-voting could you at least please explain why? – Daniel Jun 28 '16 at 7:02 • @Dopapp Some people just might not like the challenge. Nothing you can do there. For what it's worth, downvoting challenges doesn't subtract from the downvoter's reputation - only answers. – Mego Jun 28 '16 at 8:23 • Do we have to handle non-integer n? – PurkkaKoodari Jun 28 '16 at 13:38 ## 9 Answers # Pyth, 55 41 bytes .R+s*Vv.",9t¬®Ï0NwÝ"lMcUQ,T27*.051Q2  The code contains unprintable characters, so here's a xxd hexdump. 00000000: 2e52 2b73 2a56 762e 222c 3904 1874 c2ac .R+s*Vv.",9..t.. 00000010: c2ae c280 c293 c38f 301c 4e77 c39d 226c ........0.Nw.."l 00000020: 4d63 5551 2c54 3237 2a2e 3035 3151 32 McUQ,T27*.051Q2  ### Explanation 1. ."…" is a packed string that contains 3.8476,4.0932,4.9118. 2. v evaluates that to the tuple (3.8476, 4.0932, 4.9118). These are the tiers' prices multiplied with CPUC added. 3. UQ generates the range 0n-1. 4. c,T27 splits that range at indices 10 and 27, with extra empty lists in the end if the range is too short. 5. lM finds the length of each part, giving the amount of water for each tier. 6. *V multiplies that by the tuple from step 2 to get the prices for the tiers. 7. s sums the results. 8. +*Q.051 adds the input multiplied by 0.051, i.e. LIRA + PBOP. 9. .R2 rounds the result to 2 decimals. Try it online. ## Mathematica, 8376 69 bytes 1.015{3.8476,.2456(b=Boole)[#>10],.8186b[#>27],51/1015}&~Array~#~Total~2~Round~.01&  Anonymous function that constructs an array of the three tiers in the first column plus the LIRA and PBOP represented as an arbitrary-precision number in the fourth column. The whole thing is multiplied by 1.015 and all elements of the array are summed and rounded to .01. Since 51/1015*1.015 will be the desired 0.051 the output is exactly as precise, as the specification in OP. A shorter solution, in 76 bytes, as I have suggested in my comment under the Perl solution {3.956314,.249284(b=Boole)[#>10],.830879b[#>27]}&~Array~#~Total~2~Round~.01&  where 1.015 is factored into the prices from the start and then the LIRA and PBOP is added on top of the first tier. 73 bytes (but I'm reluctant to update my byte-count since this is quite close to the straightforward Perl solution): 69 bytes -- ah what the heck, golfing took some effort too. .01Round[395.6314#+{24.9284,83.0879}.(UnitStep[#-1]#&/@{#-10,#-27})]&  EDIT regarding floating point error The first three iterations of my answer are indeed exact in their decimal representation, since all coefficients involved have terminating decimal representations. However, since the coefficients are explicitly floats, stored in binary and having non-terminating binary representations, large enough inputs will start to accumulate errors in the least-significant digits of the binary representation. I would guess, when the float is so large, that it fits only 3-4 digits to the right of the decimal point, we can expect errors of around 1 cent. See below for an exact answer. 72 bytes, somewhat-immune to float inaccuracies .01Round[{3956314,249284,830879}.(UnitStep[#-1]#&)/@(#-{0,10,27})/10^4]&  The multiplication by the leading .01 is done at the very last step. Until that point, all calculation are done with integers. This means, that if the .01 is omitted, there will be an exact result, but expressed in cents, rather than dollars. Of course, the multiplication by a float converts the entire thing to a float, and, as mentioned, it needs to be small enough to fit into 64 bits and still be accurate to .01. ## 05AB1E, 6458 51 bytes 0T27¹)vy¹‚ï{0è})¥•_ÄÄ™wu24@•2'.:7ô)ø€PO¹"5.1"*+ïTn/  Explained 0T27¹) # list of price brackets vy¹‚ï{0è}) # min of each with input ¥ # calculate deltas to get amounts within each bracket •_ÄÄ™wu24@•2'.:7ô # list of price rates with CPUC included )ø # zip with amounts for each rate €PO # multiply amounts by their rates and sum ¹"5.1"*+ # add LIRA/PBOP ïTn/ # round to 2 decimals  Try it online # Perl 5, 73 bytes The obvious solution. 72 bytes, plus 1 for -ne instead of -e. printf'%.2f',$_*3.956314+($_-10)*($_>10)*.249284+($_-27)*($_>27)*.830879


Saved 5 bytes thanks to LLlAMnYP. Thanks!

• Re my previous comment, this edit turns out to actually eliminate the floating point errors you had in the original. – LLlAMnYP Jun 28 '16 at 8:08
• @LLlAMnYP, surely any approximation must have an error for high enough value of the input. Hopefully that bound is high enough that the OP doesn't care (because it's an unreasonable amount of water for a single person's residence). – msh210 Jun 28 '16 at 14:51
• @msh210 You don't know Fred's story!! – cat Jun 28 '16 at 15:07
• No, because you are multiplying and adding numbers with finite decimal representation. Of course, when you represent them as floats, they may have a not so great binary representation. You can then expect errors when the float representation allows for only 3-4 digits to the right of the decimal. My "bonus-answer" at the bottom of my post overcomes this, using integers until the very last step (which converts cents to dollars). If I were to omit multiplication by .01, it would remain accurate so long as the integer can be stored. – LLlAMnYP Jun 28 '16 at 16:29

# Oracle SQL 11.2, 151 bytes

SELECT ((DECODE(SIGN(:1-10),1,10,:1)*3.8476)+(DECODE(SIGN(:1-27),1,17,:1-10)*4.0932)+(DECODE(SIGN(:1-27),-1,0,:1-27)*4.9118))*1.015+:1*0.051 FROM DUAL;


Un-golfed

SELECT ((DECODE(SIGN(:1-10),1,10,:1)*3.8476)+
(DECODE(SIGN(:1-27),1,17,:1-10)*4.0932)+
(DECODE(SIGN(:1-27),-1,0,:1-27)*4.9118))*1.015+
:1*0.051
FROM DUAL

• Get rid of the space between SELECT and ((DECODE to save one byte. Save more 10 bytes using a named table! 7 by removing the colons and using a one char column name plus three using a one char table name. – Giacomo Garabello Jun 28 '16 at 12:51
• @Giacomo Garabello : removing the space always returns null with toad and returns an error with SQLDeveloper. The create table script adds more than 10 bytes. – Jeto Jun 28 '16 at 13:17
• you don't have to add the creation script... look here – Giacomo Garabello Jun 28 '16 at 13:44

## JavaScript ES6, 77 bytes

x=>(x>27?(x-27)*4.985477+109.681:(x>10?(x-10)*4.1546+39.053:x*3.9053))+.051*x


Un-golfed

f = x => {
if (x > 27) {
res = (x - 27) * 4.985477 + 109.681306
} else if (x > 10) {
res = (x - 10) * 4.154598 + 39.05314
} else {
res = x * 3.905314
}
return res + 0.051 * x
}


I factored in the LIRA and PBOP coefficients. The extra 1.5% gets added at the end.

Probably not the most efficient solution in terms of golfing but somewhat different from the Perl one.

Floating point error should occur with larger numbers and can be fixed by adding 1 or 2 extra bytes to each coefficient.

f=x=>(x>27?(x-27)*4.985477+109.681:(x>10?(x-10)*4.1546+39.053:x*3.9053))+.051*x

console.log(f(15))
console.log(f(100))
console.log(f(200000))

• You don't need the ()s around the x>10?:, ?: associates right-to-left. I think you can also save some bytes by multiplying out the parentheticals e.g. (x-10)*4.154598+39.05314 equals x*4.154598-41.54598+39.05314 equals x*4.154598-2.49284. – Neil Jul 4 '16 at 12:18

# R, 52 bytes

approxfun(c(0,10,27,10^6),c(0,39.56,111.06,5036475))


Try it online!

Generates a linear approximation function, based on my previous answer's values at 0,10,27 and 10^6. The catch: the upper limit on the input is 10^6.

approxfun (with ecdf, stepfun, splinefun, etc.) is one of the many nice features of R.

# VBA, 88 bytes

Function W(V):W=Round(.051*V+.203*(V*19.238-(V-10)*(V>10)*1.228-(V-27)*(V>27)*4.093),2)



The base rate and higher use differential rates have been multiplied by 5, and the CPUC fee multiplier divided by 5 (0.203).

The VB editor will add an End Function line, which is why the terminal line feed is included.

# Pyth - 58 51 bytes

.Rs+*Bs*V++m3.8476Tm4.0932 17m4.9118Qm1Q.015*.051Q2