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A NOTE ON THE SUM OF RECIPROCALS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2019
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We prove that, given a positive integer $m$, there is a sequence
$\{n_{i}\}_{i=1}^{k}$ of positive integers such that
with the property that partial sums of the series $$\begin{eqnarray}m=\frac{1}{n_{1}}+\frac{1}{n_{2}}+\cdots +\frac{1}{n_{k}}\end{eqnarray}$$
$\{1/n_{i}\}_{i=1}^{k}$ do not represent other integers.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 100 , Issue 2 , October 2019 , pp. 189 - 193
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- © 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.
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