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A125726 Call n Egyptian if we can partition n = x_1+x_2+...+x_k into positive integers x_i such that Sum_{i=1..k} 1/x_i = 1; sequence gives Egyptian numbers. 1

%I #12 Mar 01 2020 06:59:57

%S 1,4,9,10,11,16,17,18,20,22,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,

%T 38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,

%U 61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86

%N Call n Egyptian if we can partition n = x_1+x_2+...+x_k into positive integers x_i such that Sum_{i=1..k} 1/x_i = 1; sequence gives Egyptian numbers.

%D J. D. E. Konhauser et al., Which Way Did the Bicycle Go?, MAA 1996, p. 147.

%D See also R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems Number Theory, Sect. D11.

%H R. L. Graham, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S1446788700039045">A theorem on partitions</a>, J. Austral. Math. Soc., 4 (1963), 435-441.

%H Les Mathematiques.net, <a href="http://www.les-mathematiques.net/phorum/read.php?5,351823">Nombres remarquables</a> (French blog).

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EgyptianNumber.html">Egyptian Number.</a>

%H <a href="/index/Ed#Egypt">Index entries for sequences related to Egyptian fractions</a>

%e 1=1/3+1/3+1/3, so 3+3+3=9 is Egyptian.

%Y Complement of A028229.

%K nonn

%O 1,2

%A Jan RUCKA (jan_rucka(AT)hotmail.com), Feb 06 2007

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