[seqfan] Re: What is a "Q unit fraction"?

[rgwv at rgwv.com]

Dear Neil,

	You asked me this over a decade ago to which I answered you. I no longer have that information.

	Also I believe that there was a reference which has been removed. 

	That's the best I can do presently.

Respectfully yours, Bob.

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From: SeqFan <seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu> On Behalf Of Neil Sloane
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Subject: [seqfan] Re: What is a "Q unit fraction"?

I will ask Bob Wilson directly

In the mean time I added "obsc" (to A016013).

Q is pretty certainly a numerical value (or range), since A016017 is %N A016017 Smallest k such that 1/k can be written as a sum of exactly 2 unit fractions in n ways.
and - also from Bob Wilson  - there is:
%N A018892 Number of ways to write 1/n as a sum of exactly 2 unit fractions.

Best regards
Neil

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On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 2:46 PM Alex Meiburg <timeroot.alex at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Two guesses. First option: this is a "q-analog" of a unit fraction. 
> There are "q-analogs" of a variety of quantities, but I don't 
> understand them very well and I think you'd have to specify q? Maybe 
> it ends up being independent of q here, though.
>
> Second option: you're misparsing the description, and instead of 
> decomposing into "Q unit fractions", it's decomposing into plain old 
> unit fractions, of which there are Q. Q is some variable that hasn't 
> been properly explained.
>
> Actually, I'd bet on the second one, given that they say "exactly Q" 
> unit fractions, which really suggests that Q is a quantity of unit fractions.
>
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 11:30 AM Sean A. Irvine <sairvin at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > A016013 Number of ways to write 1/n as a sum of exactly Q unit fractions.
> >
> > Not a lot of information to go on here.
> >
> > Sean.
> >
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