Problem 2737. Prouhet–Tarry–Escott (basic)

Created by Jan Orwat

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Inspired by problem 660.

Given n return two disjoint sets of integers A and B with same cardinality having following property:

for i = 1:n

Try to minimize sets cardinality.

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LY Cao on 7 Oct 2016

assert(isequal(sum(A(:).^(1:n)), sum(A(:).^(1:n)))), makes it too basic.
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Jan Orwat on 8 Oct 2016

I have no idea what I was thinking of when I wrote this. Thanks for pointing that out so quickly.

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