Timeline for The set of lengths of $nX$ gets larger and larger for every non-zero, non-empty, finite $X \subseteq \mathbf N$ with $0 \in X$

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May 8, 2017 at 8:30	history	edited	Salvo Tringali	CC BY-SA 3.0	re-written everything
May 8, 2017 at 8:24	history	edited	Salvo Tringali	CC BY-SA 3.0	re-written everything
May 7, 2017 at 19:54	history	edited	Salvo Tringali	CC BY-SA 3.0	fixed a typo in the title and in the text
May 7, 2017 at 19:14	history	edited	Salvo Tringali	CC BY-SA 3.0	fixed some details
May 7, 2017 at 18:44	history	edited	Salvo Tringali	CC BY-SA 3.0	fixed a typo
May 7, 2017 at 18:34	history	edited	Salvo Tringali	CC BY-SA 3.0	added a further remark concerning the limit in Edit 2
May 7, 2017 at 18:20	history	edited	Salvo Tringali	CC BY-SA 3.0	added a remark concerning Edit 2
May 7, 2017 at 17:50	comment	added	Salvo Tringali		Yes, this is also Theorem 1.1 in Nathanson's Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets.
May 7, 2017 at 17:41	history	edited	Salvo Tringali	CC BY-SA 3.0	added a link
May 7, 2017 at 17:40	comment	added	Terry Tao		The asymptotic structure of $nX$ is described in this paper of Nathanson: ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=304305 . After normalising $X$, $nX$ is basically a long interval plus some fixed finite sets on either end.
May 7, 2017 at 17:31	history	edited	Salvo Tringali	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 22 characters in body
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