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Almost a half (Posted on 2020-05-15)

A certain set of positive integers (a,b,c) causes the sum of their reversals (i.e. S=1/a+1/b+1/c) to be the closest to 1/2 without equaling or exceeding it.

Find S.
Explain your method.

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S=53.

A variant of Sylvester's sequence A000058, truncated after the first term.

Posted by broll on 2020-05-15 08:25:02

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