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Supreme Subset (Posted on 2014-01-02)

Let us define the set T = {1,2,3,...,700}. Now, S is a subset of T such that no two numbers in S differ by a difference of 2 or 5.

Determine the largest number of elements that S can have.

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Yes, 3 out of 7 is the best I could come up with also.

2 numbers, 2 blanks, 1 number, 2 blanks, repeat.

or, actually, any of 7 variations:

1100100

1001001

0010011

0100110

1001100

0011001

0110010.

I thought that I could slip an extra number in, taking advantage of the end conditions, but no dice. Maximum elements in S is 300.

Posted by Steve Herman on 2014-01-02 15:25:05

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