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What is the minimal value of $\lvert 1-\sum_{n\in A}\frac{1}{n}\rvert$ as $A$ ranges over all subsets of $\{1,\ldots,N\}$ which contain no $S$ such that $\sum_{n\in S}\frac{1}{n}=1$? Is it \[e^{-(c+o(1))N}\] for some constant $c\in (0,1)$?
It is trivially at least $1/[1,\ldots,N]$.