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Problem 76.  More on Egyptian fractions

Emmanuel Vantieghem sent the following nice problem:

Egyptian fractions is an issue that we have posted several times, in Problem 35 and in the Puzzles 897, 899 and 1020. Here we go again exploring an new feature of the same issue, as proposed by Emmanuel:

Find ODD semiprimes whose reciprocals sum up to 1 or prove that this is impossible.

Q. Send your best result

 

Emmanuel Vantieghem wrote on November 14, 2020:


With a ultimate effort I finally found a set of  2775  semiprimes whose reciprocals sum to 1 :

I arrived at a point that I started to believe that such a set was impossible !

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This is the way I worked :
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In the sequel, a squarefree odd semiprime will be called a SOSP.

 
The set of all  SOSPs will be denoted by  Z.
Let's start with taking a finite subset  A  of  Z  such that the sum  t(A)  of all reciprocals of  A is greater than  1.
Then take a subset  B  of  A  and  Let  t(B)  be the sum of the reciprocals of the members of  B.
If  t(B) > 1, select from  B  an element  b  such that  t(B) - 1/b  has a denominator as small as possible.
Replace  B  by  B \ {b}.  We repeat that process till the sum of the reciprocals is no longer bigger than  1.  If  t(B) = 1  you are lucky !
If  t(B) < 1  we select from  A \ B  an element  a  that is not in  B  such that  t(B) + 1/a   has a denominator as small as possible.
Replace  B  by  joining  a  to  B  We repeat this until the sum of reciprocals is no longer smaller than 1.   If  t(B) = 1  you are lucky !
But in most cases this process enters into an infinite loop.  This is the case when  a = b.
Therefore, the success will depend on the choice of a good  A  and  B.
After a lot of attempts I took for  A  the set of SOSPs with greatest prime divisor  p(80) = 409  and for  B  I took the set of  SOSPs with greatest prime divisor  p(79) = 401.

So, to find a solution that way, you need more luck than intelligence ... !

Also, minimality is not ensured.
When I apply this to find Egyptian fractions with semiprime denominator that sum to  1  I find a set of  111  members.
In this site solutions of  47  members are presented by Watanabe.


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Emmanuel Vantieghem wrote on December 18, 2020:

I found a solution with  2767  elements. You may find it in the annex (available on request).

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On Jan-7-2021, Emmanuel Vantieghem wrote:

I got an improvement of my previous record : 2587 odd semiprimes whose reciprocals sum up to 1 

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