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Ten Algorithms for Egyptian Fractions
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| Organization: | Univ. of California, Irvine |
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| Mathematica in Education and Research |
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The ancient Egyptians used a number system involving sums of distinct unit fractions. Mathematica is used to explore the many techniques that have been devised for translating rational numbers into these sums.
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| Egyptian.nb (128.1 KB) - Mathematica Notebook |
Files specific to Mathematica 2.2 version:
| | Egyptian.ma (78.1 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older |
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