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Subset of Integers

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March 2, 2008
induction

Problem Statement

Let S S be the smallest subset of the integers with the property that 0S 0\in S and for any xS x\in S, we have 3xS 3x\in S and 3x \plus{} 1\in S. Determine the number of non-negative integers in S S less than 2008 2008.