Representation of One as the Sum of Unit Fractions

2009/02/23 by Yuya Dan, Dan, Yuya
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0902.3859

6 pages, no figure

arxiv created 2009/04/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

One is expressed as the sum of the reciprocals of a certain set of integers. We give an elegant proof to the fact applying the polynomial theorem and basic calculus.

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