On the Egyptian method of decomposing 2/n into unit fractions

Historia Mathematica - Tập 35 Số 1 - Trang 1-18 - 2008
Abdulrahman Ali Abdulaziz1
1Department of Mathematics, University of Balamand, P.O. Box 100, Tripoli, North Lebanon

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