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Discussion

I looked at the book[1]. There's nothing about "Egyptian fractions 31/311" in it. Need to be reassured. --Smartsl (talk) 09:59, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Wagon, Stanley (1991). Mathematica in Action. H. Freeman.
It's Third Edition though. Maybe the wrong one. --Smartsl (talk) 10:17, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Odd that it would have been removed, but it's definitely in my print copy of the first edition. More specifically, on 273, it has "Exercise: What is the greedy representation of 31/311? (There are 10 terms, the last of which has a denominator with over 500 digits!)" —David Eppstein (talk) 19:13, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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