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Challenge: Find the Egyptian Fraction’s Denominators

Explore how to break down any positive fraction into a sum of unique unit fractions through Egyptian fractions. This lesson helps you understand the design of greedy algorithms for optimization problems and guides you in implementing a step-by-step approach to find denominators representing the fraction accurately.

Problem statement

Every positive fraction can be represented as the sum of its unique unit fractions. A fraction is a unit fraction if the numerator is 11 and the denominator is a positive integer. For example, 1/31/3 ...