SIMON-MARAIS 2018 B2

Let $S$ be the set of real numbers that can be expressed as $\sqrt{m} - \sqrt{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are positive integers.

Do there exist real numbers $a < b$ such that the open interval $(a, b)$ contains only finitely many elements of $S$ ?

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