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• More Sums Than Differences

  Published:Nov 6, 2026 |  at 12:21 AM

  Addition commutes and subtraction does not, so a set of numbers should never have more sums than differences. About one random set in 2,200 does, however large the sets get. I ran tens of billions of simulated sets to watch how that fraction reaches its limit, and it overshoots.