Filling two gaps without a four-term progression
Question
Take the list with integers. How many ordered pairs make the list strictly increasing while ensuring that no four of its entries, taken in any order, form an arithmetic progression?
Short answer
. We need . Values and are excluded (they complete and ), leaving pairs; the pairs , and create progressions ; ; , so (confirmed by brute force).
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