If you haven't seen this problem yet, do try it out. Spoilers follow.
I would like to propose an extension: is it possible to improve the bound ?
An idea I had is start with a primorial cubed, multiply by 8 each step, until the next primorial cubed is needed. Of course, this would allow arbitrarily large subsequences of geometric sequences, so we will not allow increments of 8, ie is strictly monotonically increasing.
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