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- Subject: Query about Egyptian fractions.
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- From: wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:38:21 GMT
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury
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- This matter was raised a month or so ago, but I don't recall seeing a reply.
- Apologies if I missed one.
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- There are some conjectures about Egyptian fractions, by (I think) Erdos, or
- perhaps Seirpinski. They relate to whether there is a global upper bound on
- the number of reciprocals of positive integers required to sum to an
- arbitrary positive rational.
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- Can anyone please give
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- (i) the author(s) and statement(s) of the conjecture(s).
- (ii) their current status.
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- Thanks, Bill Taylor. wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz
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