Solution

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This is an infinite binary expansion with digits in . If the usual expansion of has infinitely many digits, list their positions as . If it terminates with a final term , replace that term by
this also covers every dyadic rational. For , use . Thus every has the required form.
The representation by an infinite strictly increasing sequence is unique. If two sequences first differ at exponent , one sum contains and the other does not. The latter's entire possible tail is at most , while the former has plus its own nonempty tail, so the sums cannot agree.

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