Compact Symmetric Solutions to the Postage Stamp Problem
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We derive lower and upper bounds on possible growth rates of certain sets of positive integers Ak = {1 = a1 < a2 < . . . < ak} such that all integers n ∈ {0, 1, 2, . . . , kak} can be represented as a sum of no more than k elements of Ak, with repetition.
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