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'The Splitting Algorithm for Egyptian Fractions.' J. (the numerators of which are OEIS A002260, and the denominators of whichĪre copies of the integer ), the unit fraction Was subsequently rediscovered by Sylvester (Hoffman 1998, p. 154 Martin 1999). Published an algorithm for constructing unit fraction representations, and this algorithm Remainder method, greedy algorithm, reverseĪnd splitting algorithm) for decomposing anĪrbitrary fraction into unit fractions. However, there are a number of algorithms (includingįraction unit fraction algorithm, generalized No algorithm is known for producing unit fraction representations having either a minimum number of terms or smallest possible denominator (Hoffman 1998, p. 155). Has an Egyptian fraction in which each denominator Martin (1999) showed that for every positive rational number, there exist Egyptian fractions whose largest denominatorįorm a positive proportion of the integers up to for sufficiently

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Unit fractions can be constructed using the identity Fibonacci provedĪ sum of distinct unit fractions (Hoffman 1998, p. 154). Number has representations as an Egyptian fraction with arbitrarily many termsĪnd with arbitrarily large denominators, althoughįor a given fixed number of terms, there are only finitely many. Represent using unit fractions was 2/3 (Wells 1986, p. 29).Įgyptian fractions are almost always required to exclude repeated terms, since representations such as are trivial. The unique fraction that the Egyptians did not The reason the Egyptians chose this method for representing fractions is notĬlear, although André Weil characterized the decision as 'a wrong turn' The famous Rhind papyrus, dated toĪround 1650 BC contains a table of representations of as Egyptianġ01. The last version of the constructor expects a string or unicode instance.An Egyptian fraction is a sum of positive (usually) distinct unit fractions. (But see the documentation for the limit_denominator() method below.) Usual issues with binary floating-point (see Floating Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations), theĪrgument to Fraction(1.1) is not exactly equal to 11/10, and soįraction(1.1) does not return Fraction(11, 10) as one might expect.

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The next two versions acceptĮither a float or a decimal.Decimal instance, and return aįraction instance with exactly the same value. Other_fraction is an instance of numbers.Rational and returns aįraction instance with the same value. Of numbers.Rational and returns a new Fraction instance The first version requires that numerator and denominator are instances Fraction ( other_fraction ) class fractions. Fraction ( numerator = 0, denominator = 1 ) ¶ class fractions. The fractions module provides support for rational number arithmetic.Ī Fraction instance can be constructed from a pair of integers, fromĪnother rational number, or from a string.

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