Egyptian Fractions

This script decomposes proper fractions into a sum of Egyptian fractions - fractions of the form 1/n. The algorithm that is used is the "greedy algorithm."

  • Enter a fraction between 0 and 1:
  • Then click here to
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More on egyptian fractions...David Eppstein's Egyptian fractions page.

Ken Levasseur
Mathematical Sciences
UMass Lowell
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