You and your two friends, Tara and Peter, are having a discussion about positive integers, as you do. 

Tara: I have divided all the positive integers into two non-empty disjoint sets A and B. Peter: Big deal. So did I, but I called mine S and T. You: Tara, what’s so special about your partitions? Tara: Well, a number is in A if and only if it’s the sum of 2 distinct integers in A or it’s the sum of 2 distinct integers in B. 

You: What about yours, Peter? Peter: The sum of any two distinct integers in S is in T, and the sum of any two distinct integers in T is in S. 

You: I don’t think either of these is possible! 

Who’s right? Could Tara produce such a partition? What about Peter? For each, find solutions if possible; if not possible, explain why not. 

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