Egyptian Fractions (Calculations)

[Franklin T. Adams-Watters]

franktaw at netscape.net (Franklin T. Adams-Watters) wrote:
>The only way I know of to find the minimum number of terms for a given rational is to use a recursive routine (in pseudo-code):
>
>FindEgypt(rat, target, minDen)
>...
>end

I wanted to note at this point that this has to be implemented with an extended-precision arithmetic package (e.g., Maple or Mathematica).  The denominators get large rapidly.
-- 
Franklin T. Adams-Watters
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Palatine, IL 60067
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