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Erdős problem 602

Does every almost-disjoint family of countably infinite sets whose pairwise intersections all have size ≠ 1 have Property B?

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Formal disproof of disjoint_without_infinite_claim.

Counterexample: Take α = ℕ, I = Fin 2, with A 0 = {0} and A 1 = {1}. These are pairwise disjoint, satisfying the only hypothesis. But singleton sets are vacuously monochromatic under any colouring: the only pair (x, y) ∈ {0} × {0} is (0, 0), and f 0 = f 0 trivially. So any colouring makes A 0 monochromatic, meaning HasPropertyB fails.

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