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111Greedy algorithm for Egyptian fractions — In mathematics, an Egyptian fraction is a representation of an irreducible fraction as a sum of unit fractions, as e.g. 5/6 = 1/2 + 1/3. As the name indicates, these representations have been used as long ago as ancient Egypt, but the first… …
112English words first attested in Chaucer — Contents 1 Etymology 2 List 2.1 Canterbury Tales General Prologue …
113Mapping of Unicode characters — Unicode’s Universal Character Set has a potential capacity to support over 1 million characters. Each UCS character is mapped to a code point which is an integer between 0 and 1,114,111 used to represent each character within the internal logic… …
114Fracción — Para otros usos de este término, véase Fracción (desambiguación). En matemáticas, una fracción, o número fraccionario, o quebrado (del vocablo latín frāctus, fractĭo ōnis, roto, o quebrado)[1] es la expresión de una cantidad dividida entre otra;… …
115Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll — The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll (also referred to as EMLR) was a 10 x 17 leather roll purchased by Alexander Henry Rhind in 1858. It was sent to the British Museum in 1864, along with the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus but the former was not… …
116Rites — • The ceremonies, prayers, and functions of any religious body Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Rites Rites † …
117Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2/n table — The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus contains, among other mathematical contents, a table of Egyptian fractions created from 2/ n . The text reports 51 rational numbers converted to short and concise unit fraction series. The document was written in… …
118Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
119Sylvester's sequence — In number theory, Sylvester s sequence is a sequence of integers in which each member of the sequence is the product of the previous members, plus one. The first few terms of the sequence are::2, 3, 7, 43, 1807, 3263443, 10650056950807,… …
120Suite de Sylvester — Démonstration graphique de la convergence vers 1 de la somme 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/7 + 1/43 +... Chaque rang de n carrés de côté 1/n a une aire totale de 1/n ; l ensemble des rangs recouvre exactement un carré plus grand, d aire 1. [Les carrés de… …
