A question of Erdos and Graham on Egyptian fractions

Abstract

Answering a question of Erdos and Graham, we show that for each fixed positive rational number x the number of ways to write x as a sum of reciprocals of distinct positive integers each at most n is 2(cx + o(1))n for an explicit constant cx increasing with x.

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