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A112330
a(n) is the number of terms in the n-th row of A106394.
3
1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 7, 8, 7, 6, 9, 7, 8, 8, 9, 8, 8, 9, 8, 11, 11, 11, 11, 9, 14, 10, 15, 12, 12, 15, 11, 14, 10, 14, 12, 13, 12, 16, 15, 13, 12, 12, 17, 13, 16, 16, 15, 16, 19, 14, 17, 16, 16, 21, 15, 18, 16, 18, 18, 18, 19, 21, 20, 19, 20, 22, 17, 20, 27, 19, 25, 20, 18, 23, 24
OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
EXAMPLE
H(4) = 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 = 25/12 has the Egyptian fraction expansion, by the greedy algorithm, of 1 + 1 + 1/12. Since there are 3 terms in this expansion, a(4) = 3.
MATHEMATICA
egyptFraction[f_] := Ceiling[1/Most[NestWhileList[# - 1/Ceiling[1/#] &, f, # != 0 &]]]; a[n_] := Length[egyptFraction[HarmonicNumber[n]]]; Array[a, 100] (* Amiram Eldar, Apr 09 2022 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Leroy Quet, Sep 04 2005
EXTENSIONS
More terms from David Wasserman, Apr 16 2009
STATUS
approved