Erdős Problem #33 — Minimal counting function of complements to the squares

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Let b1<b2<…b_1 < b_2 < \ldots be an infinite sequence of integers, so that every integer is of the form b+k2b + k^2. Denote by B(x)B(x) the number bb-s not exceeding xx. [...] I can not determine the smallest possible value of lim sup⁡B(x)x12\limsup \frac{B(x)}{x^{\frac{1}{2}}}. Clearly B(x)⩾x12B(x) \geqslant x^{\frac{1}{2}} holds, but I can not prove that lim inf⁡B(x)x12>1\liminf \frac{B(x)}{x^{\frac{1}{2}}} > 1.

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P. Erdős, Problems and results in additive number theory, Colloque sur la Théorie des Nombres, Bruxelles 1955 (1956), 127-137.

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