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Erdős problem 282

Let ANA\subseteq \mathbb{N} be an infinite set and consider the following greedy algorithm for a rational x(0,1)x\in (0,1): choose the minimal nAn\in A such that n1/xn\geq 1/x and repeat with xx replaced by x1nx-\frac{1}{n}. If this terminates after finitely many steps then this produces a representation of xx as the sum of distinct unit fractions with denominators from AA.
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