Conjectures' miners solve both parts of Erdős Problem 14, open for 34 years, verified in Lean
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-17
Conjectures.io announced that its miners solved both parts of Erdős Problem 14, open for over 34 years. The result proves a square-root lower bound on exceptions to unique representation as a sum of two elements of any set of natural numbers. Full proofs are formally verified in Lean.
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