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pow:problem5f20

Problem 5 (due Monday, November 9)

Recall that a denotes the floor of a, i.e. the largest integer smaller or equal than a. What is the smallest possible value of 1x1+1x2++1xn, where x1,x2,,xn are positive real numbers such that x1++xn=1?

Yuqiao Huang is the only person who submitted a solution. His solution is very nice and it is based on a different idea than our solution. Both solutions are discussed in the following link Solution

pow/problem5f20.txt · Last modified: 2020/11/09 22:54 by mazur