The largest unmakeable postage

You have unlimited stamps worth $5$ and $21$ (cents). What is the largest value that cannot be formed as a non-negative combination $5a + 21b$ ?

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For coprime $m,n$ , the Frobenius (largest non-representable) number is $mn-m-n$ .
$5\cdot21-5-21=79$ .

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