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by Lucasoato 39 days ago
> so 6/7=[2,4,14,28]. Whether this is optimal or not is open to argument. It's longer than [2,3,42], but on the other hand the denominators are smaller.

Also 6/7 = [2,7,7,14]
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fph 38 days ago
That's not an Egyptian fraction decomposition because there are 2 sevens.
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Lucasoato 38 days ago
> But convention dictated that they could not use the same unit fraction more than once

Damn, I missed this!

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