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A positive fraction a/N is said to be written in Egyptian form if we write a/N = 1/n 1 + 1/n 2 + • • • + 1/n k, 0 n 1 n 2 ... nk, where the n i are integers. Among the many expansions for each fraction a/N there is some expansion for which nk is minimal. Let D(a, N) denote the minimal
Bleicher et al. (1976) studied this question.