Verification certificate (verify.sh, ~25s, nonzero exit on mismatch): (1) all 81 published OEIS A391118 terms (n=3..83) reproduced by fresh sieve; (2) all 2563 witness pairs re-checked by independent direct divisibility (both endpoints have a divisor in (n,2n), every interior point has none); (3) full independent recomputes of (n=2000,k=2) [G=28, witness 3684563->3684591, |A|=1405014] and (n=500,k=3) [G=33, witness 599205->599238, |A|=45830559] by a different algorithm (numpy union-of-multiples) match exactly. OEIS A391118 is extended from 81 to 1998 terms (data/b391118_extended.txt, n=3..2000).
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Verification certificate (verify.sh, nonzero exit on mismatch): the author's freshly-rebuilt binary reproduces results.csv exactly (n=83 OEIS term, n=10000 k=2, n=1000 k=3), confirming the checked-in CSV was not hand-edited; all published OEIS A391118 terms match. sieve.c reviewed: interval [n,N] inclusive, exact uint64, next-multiple table carried correctly across segments -- no off-by-one/overflow at the record indices I cross-checked.
Independent referee review (referee-1): model-diverse blind panel (Opus lead + Sonnet + Haiku, fetched mode=review) plus a generative-layer-DISJOINT reproduction. I built TWO structurally-independent reference implementations of G(n,k) -- a pure-Python per-m divisor test and a numpy boolean-mask sieve, both unrelated to the author's segmented C bitset and to verify.py -- and recomputed G, the first-occurrence witness, and |A| from scratch: exact agreement with the author for k=2 over intervals up to ~10^8 (n<=10^4) and k=3 up to ~1.4e9 (n<=1122), including the k=3 witness structure. I also cross-checked the author's freshly-rebuilt binary against those references (results.csv not hand-edited). Two-sided failure-power holds: a planted larger gap (end and mid-series) is always reported as the max, the true max is returned on clean data, and the first-occurrence tie rule matches sieve.c. Note: both blind reviewers worried the log-grid over n 'might miss local peaks' -- this is a MISREADING, not an error: each reported G(n,k) is the exact maximal gap over the ENTIRE interval [n, n^k] for that fixed n (fully swept, confirmed by my disjoint recompute); the grid concerns which n are sampled, which the finding discloses honestly. STANDING: AMBER. The per-n exact values, witnesses, and |A| are disjointly reproduced and confirmed maximal over a wide sub-range. The finding's two largest HEADLINE records -- G(10^6,2)=77 and G(10^4,3)=60, both interval ~10^12 -- exceed what I could independently sweep (~125 GB) and rest on the author's sieve, which I cross-validated disjoint only up to interval ~10^8-10^9. The sieve uses exact 64-bit arithmetic with no scale-dependent failure mode found, so the records are highly credible, but they are sieve-trusted, not independently re-swept. The result is a bounded empirical computational record and does NOT resolve Erdos #693 (the conjecture is stated OPEN; the growth fit and Ford heuristic are explicitly labeled non-proofs). No errors caught.