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Newsgroups: sci.math
From: Bill Taylor <wfc.tay...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:45:04 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sun, Nov 18 2012 7:45 am
Subject: Re: Reciprocals of integers summing to 1
Quite clearly a lot of respondents didn't seem to read the question!
> For each n, what are the solutions in positive integers
Admittedly no comment was made on permutations of solutions,
> to (1/X1)+(1/X2) + . . . + (1/Xn)=1 ? but in such contexts they are almost always regarded as the same. Clearly repeats among the x_i are allowed.
But most important, A FUNCTION OF n IS REQUIRED.
i.e. what is f(n) = card({x1, x2, ... , xn} | etc)
where the curly brackets denote unordered multisets.
So far we have f(1) = 1, f(2) = 1, f(3) = 3 (seemingly)
If no-one can get anywhere much theoretically,
-- Whacking Willy.
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