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Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen
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"Residue-class generic" numbers

Let us call a set $D\subseteq\mathbb Z$ residue-class dense if for each residue class $[a]_n=\{kn+a\mid k\in\mathbb Z\}$, there is a residue class $[b]_m$ with $[b]_m\subseteq [a]_n\cap D$.

Using the Sun-tzu (Chinese) Remainder Theorem we can see that examples of dense sets include the non-primes and the non-squares. Moreover, if $D_1$ and $D_2$ are residue-class dense then so is $D_1\cap D_2$.

Elements of such dense sets can be thought of as generic integers. Thus, a generic integer is not prime, and not square.

I'm curious if this is a well-studied notion, under another name?

Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen
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