A226646 Number of ways to express m/n as Egyptian fractions in just three terms, that is, m/n = 1/x + 1/y + 1/z satisfying 1 <= x <= y <= z and read by antidiagonals.

3, 1, 10, 1, 3, 21, 0, 3, 8, 28, 0, 1, 3, 10, 36, 0, 1, 3, 6, 12, 57, 0, 1, 2, 3, 10, 21, 42, 0, 0, 1, 4, 2, 10, 17, 70, 0, 0, 1, 3, 3, 8, 9, 28, 79, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 4, 7, 20, 26, 96, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 21, 36, 62, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 7, 1, 7, 6, 21, 25, 160, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 3, 6, 12, 12, 16, 57, 59

Offset

1,1

Comments

See A073101 for the 4/n conjecture due to Erdös and Straus.

The first upper diagonal is 10, 8, 6, 2, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 3, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0,... .

The main diagonal is: 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, ... since 1 = 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6 = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/4 = 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3. See A002966(3).

The first lower diagonal is 1, 3, 3, 4, 3, 7, 3, 5, 4, 6, 3, 10, 3, 6, 6, 6, 3, 9, 3, 9, ... .

The antidiagonal sum is 3, 11, 25, 39, 50, 79, 79, 104, 131, 157, 140, 229, 169, 220, 295, 282, ... .

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..91.

Christian Elsholtz, Sums Of k Unit Fractions

David Eppstein, Algorithms for Egyptian Fractions

David Eppstein, Ten Algorithms for Egyptian Fractions

Ron Knott, Egyptian Fractions

Oakland University, The Erdős Number Project

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Egyptian Fraction

Index entries for sequences related to Egyptian fractions

Example

../n
m/ 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9..10..11...12..13...14...15 =Allocation nbr.
.1 3..10..21..28..36..57..42..70..79..96..62..160..59..136..196 A004194
.2 1...3...8..10..12..21..17..28..26..36..25...57..20...42...81 A226641
.3 1...3...3...6..10..10...9..20..21..21..16...28..11...33...36 A226642
.4 0...1...3...3...2...8...7..10...6..12...9...21...4...17...39 A192787
.5 0...1...2...4...3...4...4...7..12..10...3...17...6...21...21 A226644
.6 0...1...1...3...3...3...1...6...8..10...7...10...1....9...12 A226645
.7 0...0...1...1...2...7...3...2...3...5...2...13...8...10....9 n/a
.8 0...0...0...1...1...3...3...3...1...2...0....8...3....7...19 n/a
.9 0...0...1...1...0...3...2...5...3...2...0....6...2....4...10 n/a
10 0...0...0...1...1...2...0...4...4...3...0....4...1....4....8 n/a
Triangle (by antidiagonals):
  {3},
  {1, 10},
  {1, 3, 21},
  {0, 3, 8, 28},
  {0, 1, 3, 10, 36},
  {0, 1, 3, 6, 12, 57},
  ...

Mathematica

f[m_, n_] := Length@ Solve[m/n == 1/x + 1/y + 1/z && 1 <= x <= y <= z, {x, y, z}, Integers]; Table[f[n, m - n + 1], {m, 12}, {n, m, 1, -1}] // Flatten

Crossrefs

Cf. A227612, A226640, A226641, A226642, A192787, A226644, A226645.

Sequence in context: A304638 A141903 A010289 * A347129 A127613 A211360

Adjacent sequences: A226643 A226644 A226645 * A226647 A226648 A226649

Keyword

nonn,tabl

Author

Allan C. Wechsler and Robert G. Wilson v, Aug 17 2013

Status

approved