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Tags: induction, Additive Number Theory



Let $a_{1}=1$, $a_{2}=2$, $a_{3}$, $a_{4}$, $\cdots$ be the sequence of positive integers of the form $2^{\alpha}3^{\beta}$, where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are nonnegative integers. Prove that every positive integer is expressible in the form \[a_{i_{1}}+a_{i_{2}}+\cdots+a_{i_{n}},\] where no summand is a multiple of any other.