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On a cyclic sum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

P. H. Diananda
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsUniversity of Singapore
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1. For any positive integral n and any positive real x1,…,xn we write

clearly. It is known [1,2] that

for n ≦ 6, and further [4, 5, 6] that (5) is false for even n ≧ 14 and for odd n ≧ 53. Mordell [2] conjectured that (5) is false for all n ≧ 7, but recently [3] stated that computations indicated that (5) is true for n = 7 and gave some calculations in support of (5) for n = 7.

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