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Is there some constant such that for every there exists some for with
Is it true that for sufficiently large , for any ,
whenever the left-hand side is not zero?
Source: erdosproblems.com/317
No claim settles this problem.
Open. First question: only a weak version is known, a nonzero signed sum of absolute value at most (site commentary crediting Kovač and van Doorn; comment arguments resting on the refereed count of distinct reciprocal subset sums of Problem 320), far from , and a heuristic in the thread suggests the weak bound may be the truth. Second question: the strict inequality fails at (the monograph's example); no proof for all large exists, and even its special case for sums of the form is described as nontrivial in the thread of Problem 311. No source beyond the monograph and the site's commentary was found in the search whose scope the Current assessment records; this is a bounded negative finding.