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Frobenius number (g(a1​,…,ak​))

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For positive integers a1​,…,ak​ with greatest common divisor 1, and with every ai​>1, the largest integer not expressible as a nonnegative integer linear combination of the ai​. For two coprime generators a,b, it equals ab−a−b.
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Frobenius number
For coprime integers a,b>1, the Frobenius number is ab−a−b. Every larger integer is a nonnegative integer linear combination of a,b.

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