Clean integers
Source: ICMC 2022 Round 2 P4
March 1, 2022
ICMCnumber theorycombinatorics
Problem Statement
Fix a set of integers . An integer is clean if it is the sum of distinct elements of 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 .Proposed by Tony Wang and Ethan Tan