Re: IBM Ponder This August 2007
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Whoa, that's pretty crazy. Just a guess here, but is the property of the sequence that you're observing (in white) <font color="white">that all rational numbers appear exactly once in lowest terms? </font>
Wow, not even sure how I'd start to prove that. With the floor I at least had some ideas going.
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nice observation. this is the content of a talk I attended given by Herb Wilf a couple of months ago. it should be well documented in the mathematical literature.
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