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Clean integers

Source: ICMC 2022 Round 2 P4

March 1, 2022
ICMCnumber theorycombinatorics

Problem Statement

Fix a set of integers SS. An integer is clean if it is the sum of distinct elements of SS in exactly one way, and dirty otherwise. Prove that the set of dirty numbers is either empty or infinite.
Note: We consider the empty sum to equal 00.
Proposed by Tony Wang and Ethan Tan