1. Prove the Dirichlet box principle: If n objects are put into m boxes, in college when the book doesn't tell you how to pronounce `Dirichlet'. some box must contain objects, and some box must contain
2. Egyptian mathematicians in 1800 b.c. represented rational numbers between 0 and 1 as sums of unit fractions 1/x1+ · · · + 1/xk, where the x's were distinct positive integers. For example, they wrote +
instead of. Prove that it is always possible to do this in a systematic way: If 0
(This is Fibonacci's algorithm, due to Leonardo Fibonacci, a.d. 1202.)
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