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  1. May 9th 2012, 06:30 PM #1
    johnsy123
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    Egyptian Fractions

    How do you prove that every proper fraction can be represented as Egyptian fraction? and why does any fraction that as an Egyptian fraction representation have infinitely different Egyptian fraction representations?
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    Re: Egyptian Fractions

    Quote Originally Posted by johnsy123 View Post
    How do you prove that every proper fraction can be represented as Egyptian fraction? and why does any fraction that as an Egyptian fraction representation have infinitely different Egyptian fraction representations?

    .... ähemm, not sure what happened but Old Google is still working for me: Egyptian fraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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