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2. Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2/n table - Wikipedia

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   The table consisted of 26 unit fraction series of the form 1/n written as sums of other rational numbers. [9] The Akhmim wooden tablet wrote difficult fractions of the form 1/n (specifically, 1/3, 1/7, 1/10, 1/11 and 1/13) in terms of Eye of Horus fractions which were fractions of the form ⁠ 1 / 2 k ⁠ and remainders expressed in terms of a ...

3. Mediant (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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   However, if the fraction 1/1 is replaced by the fraction 2/2, which is an equivalent fraction denoting the same rational number 1, the mediant of the fractions 2/2 and 1/2 is 3/4. For a stronger connection to rational numbers the fractions may be required to be reduced to lowest terms, thereby selecting unique representatives from the ...

4. Ancient Egyptian mathematics - Wikipedia

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   An interesting feature of ancient Egyptian mathematics is the use of unit fractions. [7] The Egyptians used some special notation for fractions such as ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠, ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠ and ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠ and in some texts for ⁠ 3 / 4 ⁠, but other fractions were all written as unit fractions of the form ⁠ 1 / n ⁠ or sums of such unit ...

5. Egyptian fraction - Wikipedia

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   An Egyptian fraction is a finite sum of distinct unit fractions, such as + +. That is, each fraction in the expression has a numerator equal to 1 and a denominator that is a positive integer , and all the denominators differ from each other.

6. List of mathematical series - Wikipedia

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   An infinite series of any rational function of can be reduced to a finite series of polygamma functions, by use of partial fraction decomposition, [8] as explained here. This fact can also be applied to finite series of rational functions, allowing the result to be computed in constant time even when the series contains a large number of terms.

7. Erdős–Straus conjecture - Wikipedia

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   A generalized version of the conjecture states that, for any positive , all but finitely many fractions can be expressed as a sum of three positive unit fractions. The conjecture for fractions 5 n {\displaystyle {\tfrac {5}{n}}} was made by Wacław Sierpiński in a 1956 paper, which went on to credit the full conjecture to Sierpiński's student ...