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A018892 Number of ways to write 1/n as a sum of exactly 2 unit fractions. 45

%I #90 Mar 08 2024 09:02:13

%S 1,2,2,3,2,5,2,4,3,5,2,8,2,5,5,5,2,8,2,8,5,5,2,11,3,5,4,8,2,14,2,6,5,

%T 5,5,13,2,5,5,11,2,14,2,8,8,5,2,14,3,8,5,8,2,11,5,11,5,5,2,23,2,5,8,7,

%U 5,14,2,8,5,14,2,18,2,5,8,8,5,14,2,14,5,5,2,23,5,5,5,11,2,23,5,8,5,5,5,17,2,8,8

%N Number of ways to write 1/n as a sum of exactly 2 unit fractions.

%C a(n) = (tau(n^2)+1)/2. Number of elements in the set {(x,y): x|n, y|n, x<=y, gcd(x,y)=1}. Number of divisors of n^2 less than or equal to n. - _Vladeta Jovovic_, May 03 2002

%C Equivalently, number of pairs (x,y) such that lcm(x,y)=n. - _Benoit Cloitre_, May 16 2002

%C Also, number of right triangles with an integer hypotenuse and height n. - _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Jul 10 2002

%C The triangles are to be considered as resting on their hypotenuse, with the height measured to the right angle. - _Franklin T. Adams-Watters_, Feb 19 2015

%C a(n) >= 2 for n>=2 because of the identities 1/n = 1/(2*n) + 1/(2*n) = 1/(n+1) + 1/(n*(n+1)). - _Lekraj Beedassy_, May 04 2004

%C a(n) is the number of divisors of n^2 that are <= n; e.g., a(12) counts these 8 divisors of 12: 1,2,3,4,6,8,9,12. - _Clark Kimberling_, Apr 21 2019

%D K. S. Brown, Posting to netnews group sci.math, Aug 17 1996.

%D L. E. Dickson, History of The Theory of Numbers, Vol. 2 p. 690, Chelsea NY 1923.

%D A. M. & I. M. Yaglom, Challenging Mathematical Problems With Elementary Solutions, Vol. 1 pp. 8;60 Prob. 19 Dover NY

%H T. D. Noe, <a href="/A018892/b018892.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H Jorg Brown, <a href="/A018894/a018894.txt">Comparison of records in sigma(n)/phi(n) and A018892</a>

%H Roger B. Eggleton, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2589730">Problem 10501(a)</a>, American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 105, No. 4, 1998 p. 372.

%H Project Euler, <a href="https://projecteuler.net/problem=379">Problem 379: Least common multiple count</a>

%F If n = (p1^a1)(p2^a2)...(pt^at), a(n) = ((2*a1 + 1)(2*a2 + 1) ... (2*at + 1) + 1)/2.

%F a(n) = A063647(n)+1 = A046079(2*n)+1. - _Lekraj Beedassy_, Dec 01 2003

%F a(n) = Sum_{d|n} phi(2^omega(d)), where phi is A000010 and omega is A001221. - _Enrique Pérez Herrero_, Apr 13 2012

%F a(n) = A000005(n) + A089233(n). - _James Spahlinger_, Feb 16 2016

%F a(n) = n + Sum_{i=1..n} sign(n^2 mod -i). - _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Apr 07 2021

%F a(n) = Sum_{d|n} mu(n/d)*A184389(d). - _Ridouane Oudra_, Feb 22 2022

%e Examples:

%e n=1: 1/1 = 1/2 + 1/2.

%e n=2: 1/2 = 1/4 + 1/4 = 1/3 + 1/6.

%e n=3: 1/3 = 1/6 + 1/6 = 1/4 + 1/12.

%t f[j_, n_] := (Times @@ (j(Last /@ FactorInteger[n]) + 1) + j - 1)/j; Table[f[2, n], {n, 96}] (* _Robert G. Wilson v_, Aug 03 2005 *)

%t a[n_] := (DivisorSigma[0, n^2] + 1)/2; Table[a[n], {n, 1, 99}](* _Jean-François Alcover_, Dec 19 2011, after _Vladeta Jovovic_ *)

%o (PARI) A018892(n)=(numdiv(n^2)+1)/2 \\ _M. F. Hasler_, Dec 30 2007

%o (PARI) A018892s(n)=local(t=divisors(n^2));vector((#t+1)/2,i,[n+t[i],n+n^2/t[i]]) /* show solutions */ \\ _M. F. Hasler_, Dec 30 2007

%o (PARI) a(n)=sumdiv(n,d,sum(i=1,d,lcm(d,i)==n)) \\ _Charles R Greathouse IV_, Apr 08 2012

%o (Haskell)

%o a018892 n = length [d | d <- [1..n], n^2 `mod` d == 0]

%o -- _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Jan 08 2012

%o (Python)

%o from math import prod

%o from sympy import factorint

%o def A018892(n): return prod((a<<1)+1 for a in factorint(n).values())+1>>1 # _Chai Wah Wu_, Aug 20 2023

%Y Records: A126097, A126098.

%Y Cf. A048691, A063647.

%Y Cf. A184389.

%K nonn,easy,nice

%O 1,2

%A _Robert G. Wilson v_

%E More terms from _David W. Wilson_, Sep 15 1996

%E First example corrected by Jason Orendorff (jason.orendorff(AT)gmail.com), Jan 02 2009

%E Incorrect Mathematica program deleted by _N. J. A. Sloane_, Jul 08 2009

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