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 | | The set of differences \root3{n} - \root3{m} is dense in all the reals, and indeed, m can be taken to be a perfect cube, m = K^2. |
 | | This is the third year in a row that a problem has been taken straight from Newman's book (three-coloring the plane in 1988, and the uncountable family of almost disjoint sets in 1989). |
 | | More generally any set of matrices of the form { a I + b J ; a, b in Z } is a commuting family, no matter what the matrix J is. So it is possible to consider more families than just the two above (which correspond to the choices J=[[0,1],[1,0]] and J=[[1,0],[0,0]] respectively). |
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