Erdős a conjecturé que tout nombre rationnel de la forme 4/n, où n est un entier vérifiant n > 1, peut s’écrire sous la forme d’une somme d’au plus trois fractions unitaires distinctes.
Pouvez-vous le démontrer dans le cas où n est un entier pair ?
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