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A Remark on Coloring Integers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Joel Spencer
Joel Spencer*
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University of California, Los Angeles, California
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Color the integers 1, 2,…, n red and blue. In this note we consider arithmetic sequences in which the discrepancy between red and blue integers is maximized.

More formally, we represent the coloring by a function λ:{1,…,n}→{+1, — 1}. Set

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1972 , pp. 43 - 44
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1972

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