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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2017 Imperative programming 4 b Solution by
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For , is equivalent to . The largest allowed unit fraction therefore has the smallest such integer denominator:The residual is . From we obtainThus the nonnegative numerator strictly decreases at each nonfinal step, and reduction to lowest terms can only decrease it further. This loop variant proves termination of the greedy Egyptian fraction expansion. The case already has the empty expansion and requires no division by .
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