Romanov proved that the proportion of positive integers which can be represented as a sum of a prime and a power of 2 is positive. We establish similar results for integers of the form n = p + 2 2 k + m ! and n = p + 2 2 k + 2 q where m , k ∈ N and p, q are primes. In the opposite direction, Erdős constructed a full arithmetic progression of odd integers none of which is the sum of a prime and a power of two. While we also exhibit in both cases full arithmetic progressions which do not contain any integers of the two forms, respectively, we prove a much better result for the proportion of integers not of these forms: (1) The proportion of positive integers not of the form p + 2 2 k + m ! is larger than 3 4 . (2) The proportion of positive integers not of the form p + 2 2 k + 2 q is at least 2 3 .
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