On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Allen, Greg wrote: > This proves that the number of sums is at least the same at the number of > divisors, but it doesn't prove the equivalence. I.e. could there be other > sums...? I think you need to be more rigorous in demonstrating the > reversibility of each step. >
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