Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer

A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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