Erdős Problem 212
Is there a dense subset of ℝ^2 such that all pairwise distances are rational?
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sorry marks an admitted statement, not a proof. Source indexing does not mean the formulation has been independently built or certified by Therefore.Is there a dense subset of ℝ^2 such that all pairwise distances are rational?
*The relation at **: for finite , where is the first uncountable ordinal.
Note that is not a countable ordinal, so this is not directly an instance of the main Erdős problem (which asks for countable ). Under CH, , making this a self-referential question about .
Granville and Soundararajan [GrSo98] have conjectured that at most powers of suffice for all odd integers, and hence at most powers of suffice for all even integers.
Ref: Granville, A. and Soundararajan, K., A Binary Additive Problem of Erdős and the Order of mod
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Or even for some constant ?
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If contains all sufficiently large positive integers then is it true that ?
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is the ordinary natural-number successor. Special case of erdos_1167.
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