A257840 y-value of the lexicographically first integer solution (x,y,z) of 4/n = 1/x + 1/y + 1/z with 0 < x < y < z, or 0 if there is no such solution. Corresponding x and z values are in A257839 and A257841.

0, 0, 4, 3, 4, 7, 15, 7, 10, 16, 34, 13, 18, 29, 61, 21, 30, 46, 96, 31, 43, 67, 139, 43, 60, 92, 190, 57, 78, 121, 249, 73, 100, 154, 316, 91, 124, 191, 391, 111, 154, 232, 474, 133, 181, 277, 565, 157, 99, 326, 664, 183, 248, 379, 771, 211, 286, 436, 886, 241, 326, 497, 1009, 273, 370, 562, 1140, 307, 415, 631, 1279, 343, 210, 704, 1426, 381, 514, 781, 1581, 421

Offset

1,3

Comments

See A073101 for more details.

This differs from A075246 starting with a(89)=690 vs A075246(89)=306, corresponding to the representations 4/89 = 1/23 + 1/690 + 1/61410 = 1/24 + 1/306 + 1/108936.

Links

M. F. Hasler, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

Prog

(PARI) apply( {A257840(n, t)=for(x=n\4+1, 3*n\4, for(y=max(1\t=4/n-1/x, x)+1, ceil(2/t)-1, numerator(t-1/y)==1 && return(y)))}, [1..99]) \\ improved by M. F. Hasler, Jul 03 2022

Crossrefs

Cf. A073101, A075245, A075246, A075247.

Sequence in context: A361849 A339409 A075246 * A132984 A277528 A358736

Adjacent sequences: A257837 A257838 A257839 * A257841 A257842 A257843

Keyword

nonn

Author

M. F. Hasler, May 16 2015

Status

approved