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[Wired] Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer

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2022-04-06, 04:32

Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer

A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions.

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