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The Frobenius Problem and Its Generalizations

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Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2008)

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Let x 1, x 2, ..., x n be positive integers. It is well-known that every sufficiently large integer can be represented as a non-negative integer linear combination of the x i if and only if \(\gcd(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n) = 1\). The Frobenius problem is the following: given positive integers x 1, x 2, ..., x n with \(\gcd(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n) = 1 \), compute the largest integer not representable as a non-negative integer linear combination of the x i . This largest integer is sometimes denoted g(x 1,..., x n ).

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Shallit, J. (2008). The Frobenius Problem and Its Generalizations. In: Ito, M., Toyama, M. (eds) Developments in Language Theory. DLT 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85780-8_5

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