Re: unique totals



Hanford Carr wrote:

kansaskannan@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I am looking for a series of numbers such that the sum of any two or
more numbers will have a unique total. (each number will be used once
only).
Thank you for any help you can provide.


The set {2^k for k>= 0}. The binary representation of a number is
correlated with the powers of two in its make up.

example 2^0 + 2^1 + 2^2 = 7 = 111 binary.

Hanford
And, if you want to allow up to N repetitions, powers of N+1.
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