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Part of 2011 QEDMO 8th

Problems(1)

ever rational can be written in form of sum of numbers in form a/p^k

Source: 8th QEDMO problem 3 (15. 1. 2011) https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c1512515_qedmo_200507

Show that every rational number

r

can be written as the sum of numbers in the form

\frac{a}{p^k}

p

a

is an integer and

k

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