A note on the postage stamp problem.
Let be fixed positive integers, and let be any set of positive integers. Let denote the set of all integers representable as a sum of no more than elements of , and let denote the largest integer such that . Let , where the maximum is taken over all sets with elements. We determine when the elements of are in geometric progression. In particular, this results in the evaluation of and yields surprisingly sharp lower bounds for , particularly for .
We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a tree of order with a given degree set. We relate this to a well-known linear Diophantine problem of Frobenius.
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