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Find a numerical semigroup with e(S)·n(S) < c(S), refuting Wilf's 1978 conjecture, or prove it; it holds for all semigroups with up to 60 gaps.
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Write 114, the smallest open case, as a sum of three integer cubes, or find a fourth representation of 3 as a sum of three cubes.
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Find the growth exponent of the largest subset of {1,...,N} with no square difference, now known to lie between 0.7580758 and 1 - c.
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Find the limit of F(N)/√N, where F(N) is the fewest marks on a ruler of length N that measures every distance; it lies in [1.56, √3].
Prove that each of six cubic equations z² + y²z + x³ + … = 0 of size at most 24, the smallest open cases, has infinitely many integer solutions.
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Decide whether, for every t, some number appears as a binomial coefficient C(n,k) with k ≤ n/2 in exactly t ways.
Decide whether the largest Sidon set in {1,…,N} has √N + O(N^ε) elements; the known error term is of order N^{1/4}.
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Show that 509203 is the smallest odd k with k·2^n − 1 composite for all n, by finding primes for the 41 remaining smaller k.
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Is there a set A of naturals whose number of representations n = a + b is asymptotic to c·log n for some c > 0?
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Find seven distinct nonzero rationals such that the product of any two, plus one, is a rational square; sextuples are known, septuples are not.
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Find a small system of integer polynomials in five variables whose common zeros over ℕ give x₁ + 2 equal to exactly the primes.
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Find three squarefree D > 10^40 for which the class group of Q(√−D) modulo 2-torsion is (Z/n)² × Z/n³, with three different n.
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Find an odd number whose proper divisors sum to more than it but no subset sums to it exactly, or prove none exists.
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Find a finite set of congruences with distinct odd moduli that covers every integer, or prove that none exists.
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Pin down the constant c ≈ 0.38 such that every split of {1,…,2N} into equal halves has a difference occurring cN times.
Find a closed form for the Madelung constant of rock salt, M ≈ 1.7475645946, the alternating lattice sum of unit charges on Z^3.
Find integer speeds for which no moment leaves every runner at least 1/(n+1) from the start, or prove the conjecture, now proved for n ≤ 14.
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Decide whether some composite number n has Euler's totient φ(n) dividing n − 1, as every prime does.
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Beat Lehmer's 1.17628 with an integer polynomial of smaller Mahler measure above 1, or prove the measures stay away from 1.
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Find 8 or more points in the plane, no three on a line and no four on a circle, with all pairwise distances integers.
Exhibit imaginary quadratic fields whose class groups have record ℓ-rank, such as 3-rank 9 or 5-rank 6, certified by independent forms.
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Find positive integers x, y with 0 < |y² − x³| < √x/100, beating the record ratio of about 46.6 in Hall's conjecture, unbroken since 1998.
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Find k−1 positive k-th powers summing to a k-th power for some k ≥ 6, extending the counterexamples to Euler's conjecture for k = 4 and 5.
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Is there a dense set of points in the plane whose pairwise distances are all rational? Expected no, known only conditionally.
Show that 4/n is a sum of three unit fractions with distinct denominators for every n > 2, or find a counterexample.
Find n > 24 such that m + τ(m) ≤ n + 2 for every m < n, where τ counts divisors, or prove that none exists.
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Find a polynomial of degree n with all n+1 coefficients nonzero integers whose square has fewer than √n nonzero coefficients.
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Construct an infinite Sidon set with at least N^{1/2−ε} elements up to N for every ε > 0, or show that none exists.
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Prove that n! + 1 is a perfect square only for n = 4, 5 and 7, or find a fourth solution.
Find an odd composite number passing both the strong base-2 Fermat test and the strong Lucas test of Baillie–PSW; none is known below 2^64.
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