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Erdős problem 221

Is there a set A⊂NA\subset\mathbb{N} such that, for all large NN, ∣A∩{1,…,N}∣≪N/log⁡N\lvert A\cap\{1,\ldots,N\}\rvert \ll N/\log N and such that every large integer can be written as 2k+a2^k+a for some k≥0k\geq 0 and a∈Aa\in A?

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