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A144063 Egyptian fractions: number of solutions of 1 = 1/x_1 + ... + 1/x_n in positive integers x_1 < ... < x_n <= 256. 1

%I #20 Oct 12 2021 11:30:15

%S 1,0,1,6,62,642,5623,47126,368680,2715613,18876751,124137535,

%T 774232619,4595291801,26030660449,141031079451,731862267491,

%U 3641135367129,17379359388167,79633646141291,350541406992141,1483638948734104,6043258919626951,23713645892145709

%N Egyptian fractions: number of solutions of 1 = 1/x_1 + ... + 1/x_n in positive integers x_1 < ... < x_n <= 256.

%C Egyptian fraction for a rational number is to represent the number in sum of some distinct unit fraction, such as 1 = 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6, here we represent 1 by a three terms Egyptian fraction and the largest denominator is 6. And the representation is non-unique.

%C There are a total of 3007198863516917545589795267613 Egyptian fractions for 1 whose largest denominator is no more than 256.

%H Jinyuan Wang, <a href="/A144063/b144063.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..114</a>

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

%H <a href="http://bbs.emath.ac.cn/viewthread.php?tid=223&amp;page=7&amp;fromuid=20#pid1591">link for the result</a> [Broken link]

%F a(n) = 0 for n > 114.

%e a(1)=1 since 1 = 1/1.

%e a(2)=0 since the sum of any two distinct unit fractions are not 1.

%e a(3)=1 since the only three terms Egyptian fraction for 1 is 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6.

%Y Cf. A002967, A006585.

%K nonn,fini

%O 1,4

%A _Zhao Hui Du_, Sep 09 2008

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