Problem 2126. Split bread like the Pharaohs - Egyptian fractions and greedy algorithm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_fraction
- AMS blog post by Tyler Clark (@tylermath12) http://blogs.ams.org/jmm2014/2014/01/17/friday-morning-math-fun/
- Bonus points if you can enumerate all possible Egyptian fractions of (p,q), but thats a problem for another day.
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Try to use "unique(floor(..." in the test cases. Isn't it Alfonso?? ;-)
This problem is quite well constructed and described. However, per the WP article linked to, it is important to specify two additional requirements: 〔1〕 Denominators must be positive. This is not explicitly mentioned in the Problem Statement [although perhaps it's implied], and moreover it's not checked in the Test Suite. That means 3/4 = 1/(1) + 1/(-4) would be erroneously accepted. 〔2〕 Each of the denominators must be different/unique. That is enforced in the Test Suite, but there's no mention of it in the Problem Statement. —DIV
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The test suite has been updated to include more robust checks on solutions and solutions have been rescored.
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