Egyptian fractions meet the Sierpinski triangle
Abstract
We explore a novel link between two seemingly disparate mathematical concepts: Egyptian fractions and fractals. By examining the decomposition of rationals into sums of distinct unit fractions, a practice rooted in ancient Egyptian mathematics, and the arithmetic operations that can be performed using this decomposition, we uncover fractal structures that emerge from these representations.
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