Erdős Problem #288

Canonical assertion

declared status 'open'. Formalized: yes. Is it true that there are only finitely many pairs of intervals $I_1,I_2$ such that $\sum_{n_1\in I_1}\frac{1}{n_1}+\sum_{n_2\in I_2}\frac{1}{n_2}\in \mathbb{N}?$ Prize: no. Tags: number theory, unit fractions.

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