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#10Primes plus bounded powers of 2no
OPENNOTORIOUSnumber theoryadditive basisprimes
Is there some $k$ such that every large integer is the sum of a prime and at most $k$ powers of 2?
Notes: Erdos called this "probably unattackable." Granville and Soundararajan conjectured at most 3 powers of 2 suffice for all odd integers.
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