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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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Subject	Author	Date
re(2): solution (to tedious to do manually)	Charlie	2020-05-15 10:59:52
re: solution (to tedious to do manually)	Steve Herman	2020-05-15 10:20:43
re(2): Possible solution	broll	2020-05-15 10:19:14
solution (to tedious to do manually)	Charlie	2020-05-15 09:46:18
re: Possible solution	Charlie	2020-05-15 09:42:06
Possible solution	broll	2020-05-15 08:25:02

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