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 Egyptian Decomposition
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Organization: | Uniwersytet Warszawski |
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 0208-606
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 1997-02-17
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 The ancient Egyptians used a different representation of a number than we do: they expressed a number as a sum of its integer part and a sum of simple fractions with numerator equal to $1$, e. g. ${2\over3}={1\over2}+{1\over6}$. This package defines the function EgyptianDecomposition to generate this representation.
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 egyptian numbers, unit fraction, egyptian representation
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| EgyptianDecomposition.m (1.3 KB) - Mathematica package | | SampleInput.nb (5.6 KB) - Mathematica notebook |  Files specific to Mathematica 2.2 version:
 | | SampleInput.ma (7.5 KB) - Mathematica notebook |
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