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Cameron's Sum-Free Set Constant


A set of positive integers S is called sum-free if the equation x+y=z has no solutions x, y, z in S. The probability that a random sum-free set S consists entirely of odd integers is known to satisfy

 0.21759<=c<=0.21862.

The value of the constant c is Cameron's sum-free set constant.


See also

Sum-Free Set

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References

Cameron, P. J. "Cyclic Automorphisms of a Countable Graph and Random Sum-Free Sets." Graphs and Combinatorics 1, 129-135, 1985.Cameron, P. J. "Portrait of a Typical Sum-Free Set." In Surveys in Combinatorics 1987 (Ed. C. Whitehead). New York: Cambridge University Press, 13-42, 1987.Finch, S. R. "Cameron's Sum-Free Set Constant." §2.25 in Mathematical Constants. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 180-183, 2003.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Cameron's Sum-Free Set Constant." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CameronsSum-FreeSetConstant.html

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