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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Sum of unit fractions puzzle

A unit fraction is a number of the form 1n, where n is a positive integer >0.

Show that any positive rational number can be written as a sum of a finite number of distinct unit fractions.

For example 1 can be written as 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6.


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