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Decide whether functions holomorphic and zero-free inside a compact set can be uniformly approximated by polynomials with no zeros on the set.
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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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Show that every finite set of integers has nearly |A|² distinct sums or nearly |A|² distinct products; false over the reals since 2026.
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Bound how close two sums of k square roots of integers up to n can be, and decide whether such sums can be compared in polynomial time.
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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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Show that a linear equation that some finite colouring of the integers avoids can be avoided with a number of colours depending only on its length.
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Show that a real number x for which both 2^x and 3^x are integers must itself be an integer.
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Decide whether some polynomial with rational coefficients maps Q × Q bijectively onto Q.
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Prove that for infinitely many primes p, the number p − 2 has an odd number of prime factors counted with multiplicity.
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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.
Prove that the Liouville function takes the same sign on arbitrarily long blocks of consecutive integers.
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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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Prove that n‖nα‖‖nβ‖ gets arbitrarily close to 0 for every pair of real numbers α and β.
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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Lower the proven upper bound 7.10186 on the irrationality measure of π, which is conjectured to equal 2.
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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.
Give an algorithm that, for h between 2^90 and 2^100, quickly finds an imaginary quadratic field with class number exactly h.
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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 if every large integer is a sum of two elements of A, some integers have arbitrarily many such representations.
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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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