Bourbaki

Exercise 21, § 1

Algebra, VII, p. 53

Show that for m≥1m \geq 1 and n≥1n \geq 1 the rational number ∑k=nn+mk−1\sum_{k=n}^{n+m} k^{-1} is never an integer (if 2q2^q is the largest power of 2 which divides at least one of the numbers n,n+1,…,n+mn, n+1, \ldots, n+m, then it divides only one of these numbers).

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