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Sets with more differences than sums

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We show that a random set of integers with density 0 has almost always more differences than sums.

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    Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta

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Schlage-Puchta, JC. Sets with more differences than sums. Arch. Math. 93, 139–142 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-009-0014-7

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