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Unit Fractions (Posted on 2006-10-13)

Call a fraction a "unit fraction" if it can be written as 1/n, where n is a positive integer.

How many more ways can the unit fraction 1/n be written as a sum of two (possibly equivalent) unit fractions than as a difference of two unit fractions?

See The Solution Submitted by Gamer

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2023-03-21 02:19:58
re: greater detail	brianjn	2006-10-17 19:37:31
greater detail	Dennis	2006-10-17 13:20:23
re: a solution	brianjn	2006-10-16 02:17:40
re: a solution	Gamer	2006-10-15 00:59:30
a solution	Dennis	2006-10-13 11:47:11

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